the way to shut out Novell ..

[Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@linuxmail.org>]

From: Brad Silverberg
To: Joachim Kempin
Cc: Brad Chase
Subject: RE: Windows base and premium
Date: Thursday, January 06, 1994 10:27 AM

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04293.pdf

if we are too rude in base then oems may either stick with win3.1/msdos 
or defect to os/2.
the way to shut out novell in the base is to either ship a full client 
or make it so there is no network connectivity.
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