🚀 go-pugleaf

> In article <3a6l59$ltg@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> s9312643@.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis) writes:
> >Here is Australia I rung IBM and asked about the price of the cd version of
> >warp. She asked me which version, the blue or the red. So I told her,
> >unsure which is which, the one with out windows. she told me AUS$179. BUT
> >she told me that you MUST have windows to install it. ??????? 
> >
> >Well I said how about the blue version then I said and see said its coming
> >out NEXT YEAR, because of problems with Microsoft.
> >
> 
> > s9312643@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au 
> > s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au
> > George Vlahoulis 	Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, 
> >			Melbourne Victoria Australia.
> >
> 
> 
> Many correspondants have indicated that Windows need not be present to 
> install the current version of Warp. So the IBM rep was clearly wrong on
> that score.
> 
> On the other hand, on the strength of *no* evidence, I believe that 
> Microsoft's lawyers are the only reason why you cannot buy today a version 
> of Warp which would cannibalize the Windows code from your full version
> of OS/2 2.1. I believe that the requisite cutting and splicing routines
> have been written and debugged, and that all that remains is for some 
> sort of settlement to be made, or a judgment rendered, which would allow
> IBM to treat the Win code on your machines *as if they owned it*. 
> 
> Unfortunately, neither IBM nor we the users own the code; we own only a
> license to *use* the code, and then only in accordance with a license
> that I haven't read. That license may well preclude "re-use", i.e. as
> part of a new release of OS/2.
> 
> I am sorry that this may be the way things are; I'd like to think that
> the license I bought indirectly through IBM allows me (with help from
> IBM) to cut and splice Windows, but that is for the courts to decide,
> sadly.
> 
> Time will tell, though. 


Shessh you must write for Rush Limbaugh. He is one of the persons
who can pontificate at lenght on absolutely "on the strength of *no* evidence,"

Why must those of us with a great new operating system even run
windows? Os/2 has its own graphical interface but it is no good
unless a buyer can run 16 bit windows with it. Sure a few people
will buy it for what it is a 32 bit multitasking system but for
the most part none will unless it can run windows.

Me I wouldn't buy it as a 32 bit multitasking system because it is a joke.
Just one misbehaving program can lock you out of your keyboard
and mouse! I know because I have tried os/2 warf 3.0.

Os/2 WARF 3.0 is more like a super windows shell then a valuable operating
system and that is why it is having a difficult time in the market 
place. Still it is a great low end multitasking system for 8 meg pc's
and probably the only one that sorta runs on a 4 meg pc. IMHO :>)
Vic