Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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> 1. NT was jointly developed by MS and IBM, marketed by
> MS as NT/W2K/XP, and by IBM as OS/2 and OS/2 Warp.
Actually, the products that were sold as "OS/2" bear very little resemblence to those sold as "Windows NT" and its subsequent flavors.
The two share some history and some minor bits of code, but the two diverged *significantly* well before the first IBM release of OS/2 (v2.0) in 1992...