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Re: Requiem for OpenDoc

#96
From: Erik Funkenbusch
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <3332cf92.0@news.essex1.com>, bgqhr!drrdw0.bnl (Chris J. Alumbaugh) wrote:
>In message <3332c3de.0@usamrid.isd.net> - chucks@isd.net (Erik
>Funkenbusch)Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:26:46 GMT writes:
>:>
>:>In article <5gsssh$bvk@lehi.kuentos.guam.net>, crobato@kuentos.guam.net
> wrote:
>:>>In <33305cf6.0@usamrid.isd.net>, chucks@isd.net (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>:>>>In article <333008b1.0@news.essex1.com>, bgqhr!drrdw0.bnl (Chris J.
> Alumbaugh)
>:>> wrote:
>:>>>>What a lame, ignorant post, from someone who defends a certain other
>:>>>>software company whose dismal record on ship dates is overshadowed only by
>:>>>>horror stories of ~43 yr old "lost" letters from the postal service.  IBM
>:>>>>has "delievered" quite a bit of the technologies that are the computer you
>:>>>>are running, and let's see,, Microsoft made a mouse and BOB and a some
>:>>>>other stuff that  I have even a lower opinion of.  Yeah, I guess Microsoft
>:>>>>delievered on Windows 95 and active X and IE,, but I got to say, I'll take
>:>>>>"dead" IBM technology ANY day over what MS dellievered. Can you say
>:>>>>CAIRO=1994??  Wouldn't happen to have a harddrive with PMRL technology
>:>>>>would you?
>:>>>
>:>>>Excuse me?  NT 3.1 didn't even come out until 1993, Cairo wasn't even
> planned 
>:>>>until 1994.  How the hell could it have been late before it was even 
>:>>>announced?
>:>>>
>:>>>Fact is, the vast majority of MS products are delivered ON TIME or *EARLY*.
>:>>
>:>>Nonsense.  This goes against the grain and every prediction and 
>:>>expectation of everyone in 1992 and 1993 about NT and Cairo.
>:>
>:>Please provide sources for this Chris.  You can't, because they don't exist.
>:>
>:>I challenge you to name 10 products that MS was more than 3 months late with.
>  
>:>I can name dozens that were on time or early.
>:>
>
>You lie,  Dozens = a minimum of 48 products even at a conservative
>interpretation. You cannot name 48 microsoft products that were on time or
>early.

How stupid are you chris?  Dozens means a minimum of 24.

But your right, I meant at least a dozen.. but come to think of it, i could 
probably name 24 or more... 
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From: chucks@isd.net (Erik Funkenbusch)
Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
Date: 1997/03/22
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