[CS-FSLUG] OS/2 Anyone?

[Timothy Butler]

>
>> 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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