IBM's response to the 2nd petition letter
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| As stated in our response to your September 2005 letter we have considered
| the positioning of OS/2 and open source several times in the past, and for a
| variety of business, technical, and legal reasons we have decided to not
| pursue any OS/2 open source projects.
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http://www.os2world.com/content/view/16595/1/
IBM and SAP to develop joint software
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| SAP's move to integrate its software with Lotus Notes is the latest step in a
| process of making its products more user-friendly and directly accessible to
| more employees at companies where it is deployed, increasing its user base.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6227019.html
Yuck. SAP uses Ballnux. Well, it least it's a Linux.
Related:
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| "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
| online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues
| of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it
| was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
| and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
| liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows won
| the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
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http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
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| [Steve Ballmer:] "I think we need to think very carefully about how
| much we want Windows to compete with OS/2 in the OEM channel and
| for ISV's attention. The strains that show in our strategy now are
| temporary, and should not allow us to lose sight of the goal of
| making OS/2 the next generation operating system as quickly as possible"
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00031.pdf
1989 Bill Gates Talk on Microsoft [Gates: "OS/2 is the Way of the Future!"]
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| Bill Gates discusses the software and computer industry, and how Microsoft
| has contributed. Gates also discusses his views on the future of
| the computing industry. The talk was recorded in 1989 but was only
| recently digitized.
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http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/1989%20Bill%20Gates%20Talk%20on%20Microsoft.html
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