Re: Apple "Mystery House;" Microsoft suppression of innovation

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 02:00 AM 4/27/98 -0400, Mitch Stone wrote:
 
>The Dead Products Society? A great idea. Of all the dozens and dozens 
>acquisitions they've made over the years, it would be difficult to know 
>precisely which ones were integrated into MSFT products, and which were 
>deep-sixed. Verification would require a certain amount of detective 
>work, but well worth the effort.

Such a list shouldn't include just the products that were axed on account of 
Microsoft. According to NetAction, SCO could not improve its UNIX because
of a contract requiring downward compatibility with the long-dead XENIX.
And OS/2 isn't dead -- just hobbled.

--Brett