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Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: David Damerell
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.
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From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/05
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