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From: tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ted)
Subject: Re: re: Challenge to Microsoft supporters.
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In article <timbolC6wH1D.3Hz@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes:
>Anyway, how about this: I give you my word, without naming sources, that IBM
>paid companies to write applications for OS/2.  Satisfied?
>
>      - Mike

Doesn't MS do the same? (I.e., subsidize app development)

I seem to remember someone at RPI who received an entire (expensive, to run
NT) machine to develop for NT.  Free.  And that's just the small fry...

Ted
