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RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003

Booth, I -hope- you're being facetious-- As I understand it, OS/2 was developed by IBM, who contracted Microsoft to do the programming. Bill Gates pulled a shrewd one, and retained rights to the program once delivered to IBM. OS/2 languished under IBM's marketing department; it became the core for Microsoft Windows/NT.

--Paul E Musselman
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Exactly!  Lots of copying.  All those ideas they stole from Microsoft, then
tried to come out with OS/2, for example.

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