[Am-info] Living without Windows

[John Poltorak]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:06:35PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2001.10.29 11:55 AM, John Poltorak typed: ============
> 
> >
> >Someone pointed out this page:-
> >
> >http://www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/windows.shtml
> >
> >as a list of Windows alternatives.
> >
> >I feel quite miffed that my favourite OS - OS/2 or its new incarnation eCS 
> >do not get a mention. OS/2 still has quite a following in the Anti-MS camp 
> >and is probably one of the easiest OS's for a Windows user to pick up due 
> >to the common ancestry, at least of the GUI, and I'd expect XP was 
> >initially developed as OS/2 v3 many years ago.
> 
>     OS/2 isn't very suitable as a replacement for XP Home. 

How do you reach this conclusion?

I'm sure that Serenity Systems, the developers of eCS, a new OS/2 release
packaged with Lotus SmartSuite and Sun Star Office among many other things  
would disagree with you. They would say it was an ideal replacement. 

I really think you should include a link for it to:-

http://www.ecomstation.com/


> 
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
> --------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
> 
>   "Microsoft is like this intellectual roach motel: big brains go in
>    and you don't see anything come out."
>        -Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future 


-- 
John