Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu alt.fan.bill-gates:819 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:7672 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:10660 Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.misc Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!timbol From: timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) Subject: Re: re: Challenge to Microsoft supporters. Message-ID: Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 04:46:06 GMT Lines: 25 In article tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ted) writes: >In article 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? >>> >>>Not really. Query: What do you mean by PAID? Are you implying that helped to >>>offset development costs, or paid for the entire cost of producing the product. >> >>I mean they paid the companies that developed the applications (i.e. "We'll >>give you x million dollars if you port application y to OS/2"). I suppose >>the company in question could use the x million dollars for whatever they >>want. > >Would you like to post figures? >(for MS as well, I suppose). > >Ted No, I'd rather not. First of all, I don't have exact figures, and I don't want to disclose how I know this. However, I will say that Jim Francis from Microsoft just posted a figure of $26 million (payment from IBM to Borland) and that's somewhere in the range that I've heard. - Mike