Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:14:15 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> Cc: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Evan Leibovitch on BSD Message-ID: <20010613101415.A57154@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010612140703.B25664@darkstar.gte.net>; from res03db2@gte.net on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:07:03PM -0700 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> <p0510031cb74c1713ae96@[192.168.168.205]> <20010612140703.B25664@darkstar.gte.net>
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> IBM, the company who lost control of one of the most successful > hardware platforms of all time? aka the PC. They *deliberately* opened up the platform. Unlike Apple. And if they hadn't, Apple would have been the most popular personal computer in the world, or else it would have been someone else's open platform. It was only the sheer number of clone makers that allowed a clearly inferior IBM PC and MS-DOS to get the edge over Apple. They made the pie bigger. > IBM, the company who lost control of one of the most successful > software platforms of all time? aka Windows. They never had control over Windows. They had their version of DOS, and they had OS/2. > IBM, the company who shares a processor family with Apple? So? > Will Linux enable IBM to make AIX 5L take the place of OS/2 as > the industry's favorite punchline? Maybe, maybe not. But for sure commercial unix won't, nor will Bill Gates. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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