In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Robin T Cox
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on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:47:55 GMT
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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:39:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Free IBM Software Is Bid to Challenge Microsoft Office
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> There is a history behind this.
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> http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
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> IBM is like an elephant, and will never forget.
That sequence isn't quite complete, apparently, as it does
not mention the breakup/divorce/fallout of the OS/2 <->
Windows effort. This was sometime just before Win3.0
or Win3.1.
Presumably, IBM remembers that very well, and has been
annoyed ever since -- which may explain in part their
support for a freeware OS. (That, and the moneymaking
opportunities in using a platform which is easy to port
from and to on mainframe systems such as the z-Series.)
IBM is still hosting
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/passport.swf
in fact. Unfortunately, the keynote address at the end
of the Flash is missing.
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