Re: Boycott Microsoft

[mdevlin@eltrax.com (T. Max Devlin)]

roger@., on Thu, 21 May 1998 03:17:05 GMT, 
>On Thu, 21 May 1998 00:06:06 GMT, someone claiming to be T. Max Devlin
>wrote:
>
>>>MS has never prohibited an OEM from bundling Netscrape or any other web browser 
>>>with Win9x. MS *has* stated that IE couldn't be unbundled (which to me, makes 
>>>complete sense).
>
>>Then they complained
>>when a computer manufacturer removed the IE icon from the desktop,
>>backed off that, then complained again when one included the Netscape
>>icon on the desktop.  
>
>And you can, of course provide a cite for this last phrase?

I'm sorry, I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear.

>
>>They backed off that one mighty quick, and then
>>Win98 suddenly had IE bolted on.  
>
>Win98 doesn't have IE "bolted on" but has always been designed with
>that functionality built in. 

Yea, designed in ever since they started bolting it on.

>
>>As an almost insider, I must honestly state that the description I gave
>>above is not necessarily accurate in detail or chronology, but does
>>convey my sense of events as I watched them (closely) unfold.
>
>Well, at least he is admitting now that his posts are not meant to be
>factual.

No, it means I clearly label when I have taken the liberty of being
casual in my conversation, assuming that anyone reading Usenet to be
smart enough to recognize that I have no need to respond to demands that
I produce "proof" of my description.  Obviously, I was wrong.  ;-\

Not only have you provided no such guidance (so I am forced to assume
that _most_ of what you say is simply your own imagination at work), and
ignored that the warning I am being inaccurate here simply _reinforces_
how firmly I stand behind my statement in other posts, but you missed
the whole goddamn point and the first thing you did in your response was
ask for a verbatim citation for something that we both know actually
happened.

But since it was amusing to be able to use that "banana" line, I won't
plonk you yet.
--

T. Max Devlin
Hi-TECH Connections/Eltrax Systems
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