Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-42,: Re: Linux vs Microsoft

# Re: Linux vs Microsoft

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:56:19 -0300

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In message <708s4f$lje@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes:
+-----
| You should, for OS/2 is a non-MS operating system that had quite
| a bit of stuff ported to and written for it, but still ended up
| dead.
+--->8

Not really relevant: those of us who "create and support" Linux have an
active interest in keeping it alive. IBM as a company [1] hasn't ever had a
serious interest in OS/2 aside from keeping its big customers using only IBM
products; and with IBM's recent hints that it would prefer to drop all its
products [2] and become a consulting company, that interest has officially
vanished.

[1] There are many people *within* IBM who have a strong interest in its
products, whether the product is OS/2 or CICS or ... --- but none of
these people have any significant effect on IBM's actions. Thus, OS/2.
Thus, Mike Cowlishaw busting his butt to migrate Rexx to Java because
IBM is doing its damnedest to render him irrelevant. Etc., etc., ad
nauseam.

[2] Possibly excluding middleware for Windows NT. Naturally, that's the
one product line that's least likely to survive the competition.

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    electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
    carnegie mellon university

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