On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:53:21 +0000 (UTC), Vincent Fritters wrote: > On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked >> over by MS .. > > And they are not the only ones. > Even IBM got burned while playing nice with Microsoft. > While Microsoft was developing OS/2 with IBM, they > were secretly and not so secretly poisoning the > marketplace with Windows NT FUD. IBM were fools to > believe Microsoft ever had any real interest in OS/2 and > they got burned for being foolish. > Small companies get screwed over totally by Microsoft because > they don't have the resources that IBM has.
You really have no clue about what really happened, do you? First, NT was originally OS/2 3.0, and the early development was intended to be "Portable OS/2", that is until the falling out with IBM. This did not happen over NT at all, nor was there any "NT FUD". In fact, After IBM took over development of OS/2, Microsoft was supposed to focus on OS/2 3.0 development, but about a year later the final falling out occured. This was largely because IBM and Microsoft had different visions of the way the OS should be designed. IBM wanted tight intgration with their mainframe products with various hooks for things like their 370 on a card project to put a full ibm mainframe inside a PC. If anything, the fight with IBM was the result of Windows 3.0/3.1. When this proved to be so successful, Microsoft saw this as their opportunity split and make things go the way they wanted. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
