🚀 go-pugleaf

Eirik Lygre (ekl@kvamdata.no) wrote:
: I realize that Bob is pissed off -- I would, too. One thing, though, is that
: the driver he needs is owned and copyrighted by Microsoft. Perhaps he could
: talk to them, and have them release it. That way, he could (perhaps) get
: his investment back. Given that Microsoft has a much better track record
: with developer support, they would probably help him.

You must be joking! Microsoft (and IBM) see OS/2 to be direct competition 
with Windows and NT and they have been doing there best to hinder OS/2
(or at least to do nothing that could be seen to promote it) - i.e.
remove OS/2 support from MSC, terminate OS/2 SDK, generally badmouth OS/2
at all opportunities, choose not to producve OS/2 v2 versions of their
apps, limit OS/2 support in NT to character based. From a business
point of view it is just not in MS's interest to allow any OS/2 orientated
code that they have rights to out. 

Of course this goes both ways - IBM did their best to make things difficult
for MS after the break up by pointing out all the IBM patents that MS
were using. Unfortunately Bob is the little guy trapped in the middle
of someone else's battle.

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