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- From: slam@eve.wright.edu (Sau Chun Lam)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.111745.4471@eve.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:18:35 GMT
- References: <ePFoXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <C16LMK.2C2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <C16LMK.2C2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> adkinsg@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (Garry Adkins) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Chalk) writes:
- >>
- >>[stuff about IBM losses deleted]
- >
- >Neither of these matter as much as the royalties to microsoft.
- >Every copy now sold gives microsoft about $15 or so for the win3.0
- >stuff, and they have to repay those royalties when they distribute
- >win3.1 with the next version. This is the biggest reason for selling
- >os/2 2.1 without win3.1 support. This will enable them to lower the
- >cost, plus it will enable *ME* to quit giving money to microsoft.
- >I never use the win3.x stuff, and I don't ever expect to.
-
- I agree with Garry's suggestion that IBM separate OS/2 2.1 and WinOS/2
- 3.1 in the forthcoming release.
-
- I've got WinOS/2 3.0 installed on my system. I use it ONLY because
- I have AmiPro 2.0. Once AmiPro/2 arrives, WinOS/2 3.0 will be kept
- just in case I'm forced to use another WinApp. Uugghh...
-
- I have NO NEED for WinOS/2 3.1. What I DO NEED is OS/2 2.1.
- I would go along if IBM charges to upgrade just OS/2 2.1.
- But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay Mickeysoft another dime of
- my money for that joke of an "operating system" they call Windoze.
-
- Please pardon the language of my post but I've had some quite
- unpleasant dealings with the entity.
-
- SC Lam - slam@eve.wright.edu
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