[Am-info] Gateway Official Hits Microsoft Licensing In Testimony

[John J. Urbaniak]

Geoffrey wrote:

> I think I've seen a number of valid points here.  With IBM moving
> heavily into the Linux realm, I can't understand why they don't put some
> weight ($$) behind OS/2.  Here is what I think would be the ideal
> solution, although it's not enforceable by the government:
>
> 1. Separation of hardware and the OS, you buy a computer, you choose
> your OS.  This does a number of things.  Most of all, let's folks know
> they have choices.
>
> 2. Force M$ to publish all their proprietary file formats, now and for
> the next 10 years.
>
> 3. IBM shit or get off the pot with OS/2 (Ecomstation (sp?)).  Either
> put some $$$ behind it, sell it to someone who can properly leverage it,
> or make it open source. No, it's not the perfect OS, but neither is
> Linux, *bsd and it's certainly better then any of the Windows variants.

I have a beter idea - IBM should port the OS/2 WPS to Linux and fix the SIQ
problem in the process.

Linux could use the desktop and SOM parts of OS/2 while keeping the Linux
kernel.  It makes so much sense.

John



>
>
> These three items would bring Microsoft to their knees, unless they
> changed their ways and begun to write decent software and play fair in
> the marketplace.
>
> They wouldn't have the leverage of forced purchases of their OS with new
> hardware. They wouldn't have the leverage of the proprietary file
> formats, which reinforces the use of Office, and hence Windows OSs.
> Between Linux, the other UNIX variants and OS/2 there would finally be
> some reasonable competition in the OS market.
>
> Uh, oh, it was all a wonderful dream, but I've now awaken....
>
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric@3times25.net
>
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>
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