From: Tudor Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 22:12:37 -0800 Organization: Communications Accesibles Montreal Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32EAF5D5.6D31@cam.org> References: Reply-To: tudor AT cam DOT org NNTP-Posting-Host: dynppp-142.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Gene Buckle wrote: > > > I looked on the Caldera homepage, and found an article about their suit > > against Microsoft. It stated that some MS products (such as Windows) > > would print bogus error messages if something other than DOS were > > detected, for the sole purpose of forcing people to use MS products. > > Will this still be the case with OpenDOS? > > > > My understanding is that this was done in a pre-release version of windows > 3.0 and was subsequently removed after the press found out about it. The > trade journals really tore microsoft up over it. This was a common practice for Micro$loft in the past. I remember articles about windoze programs trashing OS/2 .I really doubt that Micro$loft isn't using those shitty techniques anymore. -- tudor 'at' cam 'dot' org yoda69 'at' hotmail 'dot' com http://www.cam.org/~tudor -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d-(--) s(-):(+) a? C+ UL>++++ P L>+++++ E- W++ N o K---(----) w--- O---- M-- V-? PS+++ PE Y PGP t+ 5-- X+++>++++ R tv b+ DI D+ G e->++ h>++ r- y>+++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------