Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 13:15:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: Dan <afn03257 AT afn DOT org>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS
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> I just sick and tired of watching people flame companies for practicing
> free-enterprise. I think they should all live in China for a year or two,
> come back and see what theor blind flaming really says about the freedom
> many countried practise. I mean come-on, he had the average newbie convinced
> MS was working for the KGB during the cold war witht hat paragraph, adn it
> was, IMHO, slander and nothing more than tasteless slander. I used to run
> DR. DOS and I saw the very message he complains about. Next he'll be saying
> the car companies are unethical for warning against the possible problems of
> air-bags with children.
> 

Chances are good that MS put that error message in there with the explicit
function of making people gunshy of other DOS's than MS.  Keep in mind
that this happened before (and probably ignited) the investigation by the
FTC into MS's os group mingling info with the applications group.  It's
really a moot point today.  I understand your annoyance at some people
that are freaked by MS's practices, but can you really blame them?

g.