Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)

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From: cinn... r. n. dominick
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00

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Michael Hermann (her...@akira.uni-passau.de) wrote:
: MS will probably make them bugfixes available by other means as well, 
: although I doubt they will make them available for free (ie FTP), given 
: their behaviour in the past

Huh? I can't think of one major bugfix/minor version-number change where 
the patch wasn't available for free from Microsoft (let's see... DOS 6.2, 
DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, some version of Lan Manager...) for at least some 
time. Hell, my sister downloaded Win3.11 from GEnie, fer crying out loud.

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http://w3.one.net/~cinnamon/                              cinn...@one.net

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From: cinn...@one.net (r. n. dominick)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
Date: 1995/07/16
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