Remember OS/2?

By Anonymous

April 11 2010

Microsoft and IBM have been locked in a cold war since the early 1990s. Microsoft and IBM had been developing OS/2 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS2 ] together. Apparently, the two groups didn't work well together, and IBM felt back-stabbed when Microsoft started emphasizing Windows over OS/2. IBM got an antitrust settlement from Microsoft in 2005 ($775 million plus a $75 million credit for software licenses) in part because Microsoft pressured third parties to not support OS/2.

Groklaw had a list of resources here [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041228040645419 ], but the links are all dead. For what it's worth, the list (without links is):

* The Sad Parable of OS/2 Linux and Main article by Dennis E. Powell, 1997
* IBM exec recounts OS/2 wars with MS
* Celebrating OS/2 2.0's 10th Birthday
* IBM exec says Microsoft threatened PC makers Infoworld
* IBM exec describes Microsoft retaliation 1999 CNET News
* IBM exec outlines MS plan to throttle OS/2, Lotus
* IBM Witness
* Kodak tangles with Microsoft over Win XP
* The Warped Perspective - anti OS/2 FUD in the press

04:10 PM EDT

There was another (better?) os

By Anonymous

April 12 2010

Remember BeOs?

10:14 AM EDT

There was another (better?) os

By PJ

April 12 2010

*Do* I? I loved it. Sometimes when I
stop and muse on all the wonderful software
we could have if there was no Microsoft,
it makes me sad.

10:37 AM EDT