🚀 go-pugleaf

jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:

> In article <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu> brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (B
> >In article <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umi
> >>In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain
> >>>I joined the Developers Assistance Program and through that arm
> >>>obtained a verbal assurance that there would be "no problem" obtaining
> >>>said source code since there was nothing proprietary.  Based on this
> >>>assurance and the license I had negotiated for using the interpreter I
> >>>quit my day job to live off my savings and develop this product which I
> >>>was going to call SimpleScript.
> >>
> >>Not to question your judgement in this case, but do you think that it was
> >>really a wise move to do what you did on the basis of a verbal promise,
> >>with nothing backing it up in writing?
> >
> >
> >I think you misunderstand Bob's problem.  All he wanted was a sample printer
> >driver.  IBM should have had this available well before OS/2 2.0 GA shipped.
> >The point is that they didn't, and they still don't.
> >I would agree with you comment if Bob had wanted something unusual from
> >IBM, but this is standard stuff.
> 
> Well, let's go back a little here.  He wouldn't have had a problem if MS
> hadn't bailed out of OS/2.  Don't be so quick to jump further on the IBM
> bash band wagon that you drive.  In essence, all three are at fault.
> IBM *should* have remedied this by now, but I suspect MS is stonewalling
> and IBM is scurrying to try and get this stuff out...

Oh, this is priceless, it used to be that Microsoft was just plain
evil (Bad-Bad-Bad) and they screwed their customers at every
opportunity. Now, they screw customers by proxy somehow through IBM.
God forbid those fabulous folks in Armonk act like lunkheads, no way,
not them.

I can see the taglines now: "Microsoft: The Moriarty of PC Software".
Welcome to comp.os.os2.advocacy, or as we around here like to call it
"cabal-land".

p

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