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Eugen Woiwod (Eugen_...@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
: > I'll say it again, slowly, so you can understand: OEMs are usually run by
: > adults, who can read what they're signing. I'm willing to bet money that
: > NOT ONE of them was forced at gunpoint to sign any deals with Microsoft.
: >
: > You have an amazing lack of understanding about the history of the
: > industry and how the software market works. Are you even out of college
: > yet? Where's your dogma come from? OS/2 user group meetings? Infoworld?
: >
: > Scott


: Scott, grow up. You sound like some 15 yr old with one HELL of a big mouth.

"Eugen": piss off. I'm responding to a lot of half-truths and inaccuracies
put forth by a few OS/who? teamsters. Don't like it?  Don't read this
thread. 

: And BTW if OS/2 is so bad, then take a look at this msg.
[clumsily quoted article nuked - get a newsreader!]

Several points: (a) If you'd been paying any attention at all to this
thread, you'd realize my main point has been (a) OS/2 is NOT better,
overall, than Windows 95 (and certainly Windows NT), and that Windows 95
will be the dominant gaming platform (remember gaming?); (b) Microsoft
having a version of Office for OS/2 (I doubt this, but it's possible)
doesn't mean much. Microsoft is the #1 developer of apps for Windows chief
competitor, the Macintosh. 

: Now you tell me Scott, if OS/2 is so bad as you make it sound(and man do
: you ever go on) then how come Microsoft had made a MS Office for OS/2 then?

I go on, huh? Tell you what - you go back and count the number of messages
"morpheus", Steve Lamb, has contributed to this little thread, and then
count mine. He's literally posted about 5 times more than me. 

: :-) I'll agree with Shadow, Microsoft makes great app's (Word and Excel and
: others) but they just frankly suck at making OS's. Most everyone will agree
: that OS/2 and WIN95 both have thier problem's. The way I see it

Well, Microsoft was the original architect of OS/2. By your reasoning, 
then, OS/2 must suck as well. Right? 

I don't think OS/2 "sucks". I think it was a good product, and still has 
some positive aspects. I will maintain, though, that its days are 
severely numbered. Windows 95/NT will be the dominant PC OS for the next 
several years. Get used to it.

: "You use whatever fucking OS you like and that's that" :-)

Hey! Finally! A statement I can agree with....

Scott