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To: paul who wrote (10909)8/19/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: micromike  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
Here is a interesting article

Microsoft's secret? It's in its 'source'
www5.zdnet.com
But Bristol and some others specializing in cross-platform support say that Microsoft's "oppressive, unreasonable and unworkable" restrictions on its source code, in Bristol's words, are part of a bigger Microsoft plan to hamper non-Windows platform growth. What better way to discourage companies from buying new Unix machines than to make it difficult for applications to work properly on and across multiple platforms, so the reasoning goes.
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