[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[John J. Urbaniak]

madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

> In <3C1A5B6700013615@mail.san.yahoo.com> (added by
> postmaster@mail.san.yahoo.com), on 12/15/01 at 12:07 AM,
>    Paul Rickard <pr@ms-bc.com> said:
>
> Amiga was a hardware platform, it died when they stopped producing the
> hardware.  Next never had much if any market share to begin with.   4
> years ago when Apple made its scumbag deal with the devil, OS/2 still had
> a large, though beginning to shrink base.  The QT port for OS/2 was pretty
> much complete .  You can get a copy on hobbes now
> <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu>, though I don't recall it being available when
> people could actually find it useful.
>
> It was done, it was paid for, it was killed off to please the creeps in
> Redmond.  And no one in IBM had (or has) the balls to do a damn thing
> about it.
>
> And today, there are still a lot more then 50 OS/2 users around who would
> use QT if it were available and current.  But we are talking about 4 years
> ago, not today.  Many gave up on OS/2 simply because it couldn't do things
> like QT, while the inferior platform had all the fluff stuff.  So I'd say
> m$ got what it paid for, same as the rotten deals it made with the
> hardware manufacturers and software developers to kill OS/2 support.  It
> amazes me how gates can buy people off to do his dirty work so cheap.
>
> And OS/2 remains  undead despite the desires of m$ and IBM.  IBM has tried
> its damnedest to kill OS/2, but it just keeps being used because it works
> and the alternatives can't do the job.
>

Yes, and because companies are starting to buy my OS/2 - eCS Maintenance Management product, Warp usage is growing, just a little, but growing nonetheless, into companies and institutions who were previously under the hobnail boots of the Redmond tyrants and the IBM cowards.

I installed my system in a Southwestern city's wastewater treatment facility last week.  While I was there, their entire city network crashed because of the Goner virus.  It was down almost a whole day, except for my little eCS sub-network.  It just kept chugging away, oblivious to the virus-induced panic that was going on all around the city's computers.  My users didn't
lose a nanosecond of productivity.

The city's IT guys were vehemently against installing a non-Windows system.  But after that startling incident, they've changed their tune just a little.

Microsoft's tyranny and IBM's betrayal won't stop me, and they won't prevent this truth from getting out: Windows is junk.

John