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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 is the result of anticompetitive practices by IBM and Microsoft
Message-ID: <2847@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 21:16:26 GMT
References: <1925@sugar.UUCP> <1612@looking.UUCP> <346@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Ashton-Tate Corporation, East Hartford Development Center
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In article <346@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk> fox@alice.reuters.marlow.co.uk (Paul Fox) writes:
>I really believe that OS/2 is a political and marketing ploy by IBM.

Of course it is.

On the other hand, the tone of these articles, and especially the subject
line, implies that there is something (morally) *wrong* with this.  There is
not.  IBM and Microsoft have every right to try to sell *their* product, at
*their* prices.

Unfortunately, it appears at the moment that they have the marketing clout
to get away with it.  This is partly because potential competitors in this
area have made little or no effort to get into the market.  In other words,
the problem isn't IBM and Microsoft; it's everybody else.
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