RE: The Future of IBM .. -- MIDRANGE-L

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Microsoft was a young, nimble company at the time, while IBM was a behemoth. IBM ran everything through "legal" before they'd do anything. Microsoft risked being sued. A big chunk of Windows was lifted right out of OS/2: was there copyright infringement? Was there a sufficient "Chinese Wall" between the Microsoft OS/2 developers and Microsoft Windows developers? Lots of questions about how all that happened.

Fact is, Microsoft and IBM both recognized that what was going to sell systems was applications. Microsoft courted application developers and took their money from OS sales driven by application sales. IBM wanted a share of the application revenue.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
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Not disputing the truth of many aspects of these comments - but there were a lot of ethically dubious practices on MS' behalf as well that went into the eventual demise of OS/2. DevKit issues could have been resolved - even marketing was beginning to show some progress.

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