[CS-FSLUG] OS/2 Anyone?

[Fred A. Miller]

Timothy Butler wrote:
> 
> 
>>> 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/

EXCELLENT and accurate based on the connections I had at the time.

Fred

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