Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13394

Email from Brad Silverberg:

"oem's and corporations that are thinking about standardizing on dr-dos now have reasons to worry about their decision. they know they will have problems now, and they know we are not going to help dr-dos compete with us."

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Brad Chase:

"also ask them if they really want to risk their reputation on their brand new machines with a brand new unproven poorly tested os."

"Future DR DOS incompatibility with Windows -- KEY here is not to say we will purposefully prevent compatibility w-DR DOS. But if given the chance it is OK to say the truth -- that we only test windows on Microsoft supported operating systems, so there's really no way to know in the future what will work and what will not."

(Of course, that wasn't the truth, and they *did* test with DR-DOS... "In self-evaluation for his performance review for the year ending June 1992, Chase wrote he 'drove detailed effort to internally and externally test DR DOS 6.'".)

-- Sincerely,

Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317

"I'd rather walk my grandmother through a NetBSD install on an SGI Crimson via postcard than code with segmentation in mind again." - hxnwix

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		Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13394 Email from Brad Silverberg: "oem's and corporations that are thinking about standardizing on dr-dos now have reasons to worry about their decision. they know they will have problems now, and they know we are not going to help dr-dos compete with us." project developers get the sack after converting to Open Source says ewic billwg Keep in mind that anyone who has accepted the terms of the EULA, CULA, CELA, OEMLA, GLA (End user license agreement, Corporate User License Agreement, Corporate-Enterprise License... Brad Chase: "also ask them if they really want to risk their reputation on their brand new machines with a brand new unproven poorly tested os." "Future DR DOS incompatibility with Windows -- KEY here is not to say we will purposefully prevent compatibility w-DR DOS. But if given the chance it is OK to say the truth -- that we only test windows on Microsoft supported operating systems, so there's really no way to know in the future what will work and what will not." (Of course, that wasn't the truth, and they did test with DR-DOS... "In self-evaluation for his performance review for the year ending June 1992, Chase wrote he 'drove detailed effort to internally and externally test DR DOS 6.'".) -- Sincerely, Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317 "I'd rather walk my grandmother through a NetBSD install on an SGI Crimson via postcard than code with segmentation in mind again." - hxnwix qGates_a_doing_the_ms.Shuffle_=A9 Q: In or about June 1995, Mr. Gates, did you become involved in the planning for some meetings with Netscape? A: No. .. Do you understand the reference to Dan... Linux \| Previous \| Next



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