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To: X-Ray Man who wrote (5428)	3/10/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

X: Your argument takes a certain revisionist divergence with the facts. Are you a Communist, Marxist, Socialist, or Just a Unix/MAPICS Programer? Duke

To: X-Ray Man who wrote (5428)	3/10/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Windows is as proprietary an operating system as MacOS. Hmmm. Not sure what you are getting at here. I can say that in the early '90s when client/server was taking off, the client of choice was Powerbuilder. And Powerbuider (or for that matter, any client) DID NOT run on a Mac. When we asked Powersoft why they didnt port to the mac, they said Mac was proprietary, there were roms involved or something, and you needed Apples support to get a complex sw package out the door - which Powersoft didn't have because the mgmt at Apple hadnt anticipated client/server. Now this issue with Powerbuilder caused thousands of Macs in the corporate arena to be dumped en masse. And all along, we told mgmt the reason we couldnt use mac was that it was "propretary". Are you saying that wasnt the case, or just that the semantics are wrong? Michelle