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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1? (Why it may cost) READ THIS!!
- Message-ID: <hatton.724315573@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 06:46:13 GMT
- References: <62740@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec14.094803.12759@waikato.ac.nz>
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- harvey@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >In article <62740@mimsy.umd.edu>, pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus M. Rodriguez) writes:
- >> I am going to post a very stupid question but I have been reading a lot about
- >> OS/2 2.1. Is OS/2 2.1 going to be another upgrade? Will it be shrink wrapped?
- >> I am assuming that IBM hasn't changed their policy of FREE upgrades :-)
- >>
- >> Jesus M. Rodriguez
- >> pr@umiacs.umd.edu
- >>
- >Sorry if someone has posted this information already but I was speaking to our
- >local IBM person on friday (11/12/92). She said that the reason that OS/2 2.1
- >has been delayed is because there is a fight going on between IBM and
- >microsoft. Basically microsoft is trying to force IBM to charge for the next
- >update because they recon that in moving to 3.1 code they can charge more.
-
- >This stinks but IBM are trying to get it out for a media charge only.
-
- Well, now I'm really confused about Microsoft :-)
- Gates says that OS2 is in the hands of a few corporate types, not end-users.
- If there are only a handful of execs with it, then why should MS go to
- the mat for a piddling royalty amount - Sturgill and others keep telling
- us that Windows outsells OS2, Win *apps* outsell OS2, their grandmother's
- *quilts* outsell OS2, etc. If it's such a trivial market, why would MS
- bother haggling? Royalties wouldn't put gas in Gates' Porsche if this
- were so. I wish they'd make up their minds.
-
- Oh, one reason that I forgot - greed. What *was* I thinking.
-
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