Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Vorlon
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 02 2023 21:03:49

  Re: Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
  By: Vorlon to Nightfox on Wed May 03 2023 10:54 am

 Vo>>> Typical of MS,, screw the other guy over and make our product look
 Vo>>> better.

 N>> IMO that doesn't really seem like MS screwing the other guy.  MS
 N>> just wanted to make it easy to develop software for their platform,
 N>> which I think is understandable.  IBM was shooting themselves in
 N>> the foot a bit by charging a lot for their SDKs for OS/2.

 Vo> Oh ok.. I did see back in the day, MS purchasing the rights or the whole
 Vo> company to just kill a product.. Then x time latter come out with there
 Vo> own version that was worse than the initial product.

That was a different thing entirely.  And Microsoft isn't the only tech company to do that.

Nightfox
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