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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
  5. Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153626.15989@njitgw.njit.edu>
  7. Date: 21 Jan 93 15:36:26 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
  9. Sender: news@njit.edu
  10. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  14. In article <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
  15. >PC Week for January 18th has an interview with Bill Gates.
  16. >I quote the relevant item:
  17. >
  18. >PC Week: Your feeling is that OS/2 is a dead-end platform?
  19. >
  20. >Gates: It's certainly a dead end.  That's indisputable.
  21. >Nobody would dispute that it's a dead end.
  22.  
  23. And they're spending all that money on lawyers, trying to force IBM to
  24. pay $30+ per copy of OS/2 2.1.  Why?  It's already cost more in legal
  25. fees than they could hope to recoup from a "dead end" product.
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