Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vorlon
Date : Thu May 04 2023 09:43:27

Hi Poindexter,

 On Tuesday May 02 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

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

 PF> My co-sysop in the '90s worked for Addstor, a disk compression product.
 PF> Microsoft essentially plagiarized Stacker, made Windows not work well
 PF> with Addstor's product, then came out with a free compression tool and
 PF> paid chunp change to the makers of the product they plagiarized - which
 PF> was no longer a viable product.

Clasic example of what I was refering to..

 PF> Microsoft, bastards they were back then.

In some ways they still are. It took, what two CEO changes for them to even
acknoledge that other operating systems even exists. Ie: the linux
subsystem.

\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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