Re: Microsoft thwarted again

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/11/2004, at 8:28 AM, pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> A while back, he told folks at COMMON that IBM's legal dept. spread the
> word to zip the lip. Something about M$'s lawyers calling IBM's 
> lawyers...

Far more likely that MS told IBM something like:

You know that deal you have where you licence Windows from us at $5.00 
a seat? Well if you don't shut up about us using OS/400 we'll charge 
you retail.

They did similar things whenever IBM started pushing OS/2 and withheld 
access to W95 etc. etc. etc.

I'm an unforgiving sort ...

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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