Re: consider the facts of the Stac case..

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"Vincent Fritters" <Vince@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> > They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked
> > over by MS ..
>
> And they are not the only ones.
> Even IBM got burned while playing nice with Microsoft.
> While Microsoft was developing OS/2 with IBM, they
> were secretly and not so secretly poisoning the
> marketplace with Windows NT FUD. IBM were fools to
> believe Microsoft ever had any real interest in OS/2 and
> they got burned for being foolish.
> Small companies get screwed over totally by Microsoft because
> they don't have the resources that IBM has.
Stick with the bologna and goetta, Vince, you are likely to be better at 
that than you are at remembering the chronological order of things. 
Microsoft had their falling out with IBM over Windows 3.0, not NT.  NT came 
much later, after OS/2 and Win95 were locking horns.  IBM didn't want a 
cheap GUI based platform like Windows as competition for their rather pricey 
OS/2 with its Presentation Manager.  Gates saw the future differently, of 
course, and was able to gain the upper hand.  If IBM would have had its way 
and managed to kill Windows at an early age, we would all be using OS/2 on 
IBM's PS/2 or maybe by now it would be OS/5 on the PS/5, but there would be 
no massive competition for Wintel PCs, that much is certain.  IBM was unable 
to recapture the PC market in the early 90s because they were opposed by 
Microsoft and the cloners like Compaq and Dell and many others.  Would you 
rather IBM had the monopoly in hardware and software?  Silly boy.


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