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- From: harvey@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: $100,000 on OS/2 and lose it. Whose Fault???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.214447.13105@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:44:47 +1300
- References: <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- > Monthly I checked with my IBM rep to see how it was going with regard
- > to obtaining the code and was assured that it was just taking time due
- > to the "normal" red tape. I succeeded in making the port work and
- > isolated the functionality required to integrate into the driver by
- > early August and began to press IBM for the promised source code. To
- > my amazement and consternation I was told that the original contact
- > that had made the promise was retired and wrong. In fact the source
- > code was owned by Microsoft and could not be released to me by IBM.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-
- I think this may be the key sentence here, maybe you should have gone on and
- asked microsoft for the source code. If there really are a great company then
- the would surelly just GIVE it to you. Its not like they want to see OS/2 fail
- is it.
-
-
- Don't give up on such a worthwile project just because
-
- a/ sombody from IBM lied, they don't represent the entire company. Or
- do they?
-
- b/ IBM dosen't own the code that you require
-
-
- c/ They want there computer back. Hell you can have mine. (just kidding
- the cost of postage would probably be more than the machine is
- worth)
-
-
-
- >
- > As a consequence I am out the $30k of savings I supported myself with
- > and the $70k lost income from the period. To add insult to injury they
- > are now requiring the return of the PS/2 system loaned me to test the
- > product on an IBM system. I'm stonewalling. I no longer have any
- > interest in developing for OS/2 but would like their fuck up to cost
- > *them* something.
-
-
- Please there may be children listening and we don't want to influence there
- tiny corruptable minds do we ???
-
-
- >
- > I shelved the project at that point and decided to move my efforts to
- > NT some time in the future since MS is making the equivalent source
- > code available as a standard part of their driver development kit. I
- > advise the rest of you to do the same. IBM still has way too much to
- > learn about developer support. Lots of splash but little content and
- > some silly notion about making a profit on their developers tools.
- > Beware.
-
- I agree a really dumb idea to sell something so valuable for a profit. If we
- all had it who knows what might happen. Althought IBM are doing a pretty good
- job of writing most of the OS/2 software themselves. Comeon everybody else help
- them out.
-
- >
- > Thanks IBM. I knew I could count on you.
- >
- > Bob
- >
- > --
- > Bob Cain rcain@netcom.com 408-358-2007
- >
- > 'The meek shall inherit the earth--the rest of us will move on..'
- > Sameer Parekh
- >
- >
- > PGP 1.0 or 2.0 public key available on request.
-
-
- Mark Harvey
-
- Still waiting for Borland C++ for OS/2, but I am getting sick of it and other
- products are looking better and better.
-
-