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Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)

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From: Hendrik Boom
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:16
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wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
: In article <1993Jan8.002640.5554@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
:   <stuffs from Robert and Brian deleted>
: 
: The unfortunate event occurring to Robert is very messy now, and I hope
: that anybody SHOULD NOT take advantage of the situation to raise another
: thread of OS/2 vs. NT nonsense. Nobody can insure that Microsoft won't
: do the same thing to Robert. I sincerely hope that Robert won't be hurt
: the second time.
: 

It looks to me as if Microsoft did it to IBM by bailing ot of OS/2
and Robert got screwed in the process (because Microsoft's source to the
generic printer driver was no longer available).

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Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
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Date: 11 Jan 93 19:16:18 GMT
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