Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Ryan Gray
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 19:34

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In <pharmacy-0508952141310001@dialup-5-145.gw.umn.edu>, pharmacy@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Patrick B. Parker) writes:

..
>The point is that it shouldn't be there, and it should have never been put
>there.  It's none of Microsoft's business whatsoever, and furthermore,
>many less computer literate people aren't going to understand what they're
>doing when they go ahead with sending off the information to MS.
..

I can just see MS sniffing out some poor user's drive and finding an 
illegal copy of DOS/Windows on there that, was put on by the PC vendor
which the user believes he paid for, and MS sending the software police
to their door.  They ask him to produce the original disks, and he says
"They didn't give me any, I didn't know I needed any."

>Patrick B. Parker
>Technical Coordinator
>College of Pharmacy
>University of Minnesota

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Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
Date: 6 Aug 1995 19:34:53 GMT
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