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[follow-up to comp.os.os2.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy]

bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) wrote:
>deh...@mirac.unm.edu (Dan Ehrig) writes:

>>Jonathan Badger (bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu) wrote:

>>: I am not pleased with this situation. But it is clear that IBM is no longer
>>: willing to seriously develop OS/2 if it refuses to add Win'95 support.

>>Ah.  I see confusion on your part.  IBM is willing to provide Win'95 
>>support.  MS will not allow them to do so without a lawsuit.

>Actually no lawsuit would be possible if IBM simply allowed Win'95 to
>run within OS/2, as no Microsoft code would be involved. But IBM isn't
>willing to do even this. It has nothing to do with lawsuits -- Lou has simply

As if MS won't do all they can to prevent IBM from doing that. 

Before OS/2 2.0 came out, MS stated publicly that it is
_impossible_ for IBM to make OS/2 run Windows.  Somehow IBM
managed that.

Soon after OS/2 v2.1 for Windows was released, we got this
Win3.11 "upgrade" from MS which just "happens" to break OS/2 for
Windows.  MS's patch (released months after Win3.11) just
"downgrade" your 3.11 back to 3.1.  IBM soon released a patch to
fix that without downgrading Windows.

After Warp was release last year, we got this Win32s 1.2
"upgrade" from MS which just "happens" to make Win32s 1.15
support in Warp outdated.

And even with Win95, if you install the preview on a OS/2 system
with Dual Boot, it just "happens" to break OS/2 completely
afterwards.

What makes you think the bug fixes MS planned to be release after
Win95 won't break OS/2's support if IBM made OS/2 run Win95?

>decided to put OS/2 on the back burner while concentrating on Notes, which
>is bad news for gamers, unless you find Notes entertaining.

This is ridiculous.  Notes needs an OS to run, and "OS/2 is the
best platform for Notes" is the message from IBM.  Saying IBM
will concentrate on Notes and forget OS/2 is like saying "MS
allied with Softbank, they will concentrate on console games and
forget Win95".

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Oliver Chung
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