[Am-info] papows resigns
Eric M. Bennett
ericb@pobox.com
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:04:09 -0500
John Urbaniak wrote:
>(But I don't remember his testimony at the Senate hearings. Are you
>sure it was Papows?)
Yes. I have an audio recording of the hearing. He tempered his
criticisms somewhat, but he provided an important piece of the
puzzle, discussing how PC makers would mysteriously cancel SmartSuite
contracts at the last minute (even after Lotus had already started
making CDs for them), apparently after being told by Microsoft that
shipping a Lotus product would "harm" the vendor's relationship with
Microsoft.
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Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
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