[Fsfe-uk] Re: [discuss] Open source software News

[Sander Vesik]

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > And of 
> > course, the Titanic of IBM's product initiatives ... OS/2. 
>
>
> OS/2 was not a Titanic. MS basically had just about every PC company
> over a barrel with Windows. IBM could not convince anyone of the
> benefits of OS/2 and it went the same way as GEM and other far superior
> products. It didn't help with IBM execs not exactly supporting it.

This only applies to later days of OS/2, OS/2 Warp and thereabouts (when 
win95 was out). OS/2 had a comfortable lead time on windows. Most users 
mere don't seem to have wanted it, or found a use. Probably also a problem 
of marketing and application software.

> TTFN
>
> Paul



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