Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:00 pm, Vince Littler wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 1:02 pm, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
The OT in the subject says it all, take this to the OT mail list please.
I disagree, it is not about guns or Iraq or America or Europe, so it would
be
more OT on the OT list. The good people of the OT list should not be
burdened
with this.
Like it or not, many people on the list are running Linux in co-existence
with
other OS from M$, and that is a frequent topic. So I find the stuff below to be relevant material for understanding the nature of Windows and
sufficiently
O[n] T[opic] to welcome it.
I half agree. As long as the discussion on how other OS'S interact with Linux (and even compare with it) remains technical, it's interesting. Once it becomes dominated by slams on Microsoft (which I generally agree with, by the way), it's not interesting.
Actually, I'm curious as to what the state of OS/2 is these days. I used to be an OS/2 enthusiast, but when support for ordinary users died, I gave up on it. At one time I had a machine that multibooted to either Linux, OS/2, or Windows. My impression is that there's still a core of OS/2 users like big banks who pay big bucks to IBM for support, but the system is completely stagnant and not supported otherwise.
As I understand it, it's still sold and supported for the big users. Individuals get to buy the rebranded eComm Station.