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Re: [News] IBM Still Pressured to Make OS/2 Free Software

* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:

> "Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental
> deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2."
> Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, whatever. Make
> the complete failure of the competition's technology part of the mythology of
> the computer industry. We want to place selection pressure on those companies
> and individuals that show a genetic weakness for competitors' technologies, to
> make the industry increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over
> time."
>                                         --Microsoft, internal document

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