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From: Simon Tatham
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:00

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Sean Werkema <stw113@psu.edu> wrote:
>So, to do my part, I will continue (as I have in the past) to boycott MS Win.
>I won't code for it whenever humanly possible, much as I may be depriving 
>users of my software.  I hope that other programmers out there will strongly 
>consider doing likewise, at least until Gates acknowledges that there IS 
>something else out there besides Windows.
>
>And, until that date, I'm doing DOS and Linux.

[snip]

>Anybody with me, or do I flame in vain?

Damn right. I agree totally. The depressing thing to me, is that Gates
probably thinks he's doing the world a favour, forcing a single OS on
it to the point where any program can run on any computer. Is he blind
to the down side?

I'm sticking to DOS and Linux as well. I may *try* to have my DOS
programs runnable in a Windows DOS box, but that's it.
-- 
/  o                       Simon Tatham      E-mail to: sgt20@cam.ac.uk
\  I  /\/\  O  /\/         http://callisto.girton.cam.ac.uk/users/sgt20
/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        Trinity College, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ, England

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From: sgt20@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Simon Tatham)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/17
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