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From: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 is the result of anticompetitive practices by IBM and Microsoft
Message-ID: <565@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 14:18:00 GMT
References: <1925@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo)
Organization: Planet 10, across the 8th Dimension
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Summary: not a flame, just a nit :-)

In article <1925@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
:Unix is effectively a commodity market.  No way could they charge that
:price indefinitely.) and even more important than that, IBM doesn't want 
:their customers traipsing off to follow Sun, Apollo, Cray, Apple, Sequent,
:Tandem, Control Data, DEC, Amdahl &c &c &c.

I suppose that AT&T is part of the &c, in spite of the fact that UNIX is
a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.

BTW, most of what your article said was neither:

	a) disputable,
	b) new, nor
	c) surprising.

(Is that lousy grammar, or what?)
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