Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: Paul Smith
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00

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"Graham Murray" <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In gnu.misc.discuss, David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
writes:
>
> > Their increasing support for the MacOS (even though this directly
impacts
> > sales of Windows) says they disagree.
>
> Weren't some of the MS applications, eg excel, originally written for
> the Mac then later ported to Windows? Also, IIRC, MS have been a major
> supplier of MAC software right from the start.

Do you mean major in the sense that they were the _only_ other software
supplier on the Mac... ;-P

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From: "Paul Smith" <ozric99@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/06
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