[CS-FSLUG] OS/2 Anyone?
Timothy Butler
tbutler at ofb.biz
Sun Apr 6 17:21:58 CDT 2008
>
>> I was also a big OS/2 fan back in the day. But now .... why??? It's
>> dead. It will stay dead. What's the point?
>>
>> IBM's botching of marketing OS/2 and subsequent dropping of it is
>> really what convinced me to never depend on closed source software
>> for
>> anything important. Regardless of the whims of any company, Linux
>> can
>> *never* suffer the same fate! That's worth a lot to me.
>
> Well, to be fair, you can't entirely blame IBM on OS/2's fate.
> Microsoft played a far more important role in killing OS/2 than IBM
> did.
A friend of mine wrote a good piece on the death of OS/2 a number of
years back. Might be of interest since OS/2 came up:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/1864/
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