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- From: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: RE: WHY YOU SHOULD GET EV
- Message-ID: <3993.18.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:02:00 GMT
- Reply-To: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)
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- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- JN> Even back then why should IBM be excused for entering into such a
- JN> bad agreement? Any way you cut it this is a problem of IBM
- JN> making.
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- > How about IBM believing that MS wouldn't drop the hammer on them
- > and completely abandon them for something else?
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- I doubt that any such fear was a real constraint on IBM's negotiating
- leverage. I think it was a screw up.
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- Best regards,
- John
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