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Article #876Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
From: David Damerell
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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<amorgado@my-deja.com> wrote: >damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: >>If their applications division is separate from their OS division, >>they no longer have the same interest in having their applications >>only run on Windows; they can maximise their profit by porting them >>everywhere. >You are assuming that it is possible to make more money by selling and >supporting MS's Application software on multiple platforms than by >selling and supporting it only on Windows. I believe this to be a false >assumption. Their increasing support for the MacOS (even though this directly impacts sales of Windows) says they disagree. -- David/Kirsty Damerell. damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk | |I hear the fan of a big machine, Two days, I'm in between, break; | | |---|lost, code fall through, Loop forever then process kill. Hermes is|---| | | |broken and lyra's down, lyra's down. "Chimaera, my Nameserver"| | |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty Date: 2000/04/05 Message-ID: <EBj*3LSoo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Deja-AN: 607021298 References: <slrn8eii76.29b.philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> <m34s9i43ew.fsf@thyme.td.micromuse.co.uk> <ubA*f4Noo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <8ce8ci$fab$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Linux Unlimited Reply-To: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: damerell@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([127.0.0.1])