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 Message 3098 
 Sean Dennis to Robert Wolfe 
 Re: ArcaOS DOS window fi 
 01 Jun 20 16:07:26 
 
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-=> Robert Wolfe wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 RW> So IBM still won't give up the goods, huh?  Wonder why?

It's not IBM, it's Microsoft.  M$ still owns a lot of the OS/2 code (and why
they chose to use it to create NT, et cetera).  From what I've heard from
IBM insiders--now this is going on the better part of twenty years ago but I
am safely assuming this is still true--M$ is afraid if OS/2 was open
sourced, they'd wind up getting an open-sourced OS/2-Windows hybrid that
they'd lose to. XD

Later,
Sean
 
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