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Cure your OS/2 wistfulness here...

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ysth:
and replace it with rage, even so many years after the fact.

The fine folks at groklaw finished transcribing Microsoft's OS/2 Attack Plan.  You'll find it, and a demonstration of how Microsoft hasn't changed, here.

On topic comment: how many of Pintsize's buddies still run OS/2?

pwhodges:
Thanks for the excellent link (though familiar stuff, really).

As for Pintsize etc, well, the last large-scale usage of OS/2 IRL was in embedded systems like cash dispensers, so it's not inconceivable.

Boomslang:
I still don't understand why people get into a rage about microsoft. It is what it is, a purely profit-oriented company that sells/licenses software solely as a means to get more money. There are very usable alternatives all over the place for basic functions.

If I could play the video games I play without having to use Wine or an equivalent, and the driver support was better for new hardware, I wouldn't be using windows at all.

Mr_Rose:
People rage about Microsoft because it deliberately tried to leverage its dominance into a monopoly, which is a blasphemy against capitalism and the Divine Will of the Free Market. Funnily enough only the EU had the balls to go for the throat and actually fine MS for being naughty.

Wiregeek:
but, but, but, SOCIALISM!

I've been anti-Microsoft since I had a Windows 95 installation just.. eat itself alive.

The problem with the Microsoft/Everyone Else paradigm, is that in the vast majority of cases, Microsoft is bad, but every other available solution is worse.. 

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