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<<ethically dubious practices on MS' behalf>>

Bill Gates is such a trustworthy guy......................................
:-))

Paul Nelson
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: The Future of IBM ..

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.

Sad - it wasn't until more than 5 years later that I finally got a Windows
PC with an operating system that even came close to the stability of OS/2.


On 2013-07-01, at 10:44 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Exactly! OS/2 was so superior that it would have easily have won the
battle, except for what Dan just pointed out.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/1/2013 9:16 AM, Dan Kimmel wrote:
The real reason Windows succeeded and OS/2 didn't: Microsoft gave their
devkit away, IBM wanted something like $6000 for theirs.
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