[Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes

[Mitch Stone]

Again, I think we all know this history. The tech media also was (and 
still is) virulently anti-Apple. The big difference is that Apple stuck 
by its guns, and even through the years of less than stellar 
management, resisted the many calls for them to give up on offering 
alternatives to Microsoft -- even though it would have been easier for 
them to take that route instead of the one less traveled. IBM had 
opportunities at least equal to Apple, and far greater resources with 
which to pull them off. But they elected to do the safe thing instead 
of the bold one.

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 03:50 AM, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

> The PC Press was a huge factor.
>
> They took sides in the OS Wars.
>
> At every opportunity, the Press emphasized (perceived) flaws in OS/2, 
> such
> as a few 16-bit drivers, while at the same time, glossing over 
> Windows's
> real problems, such as instability in '95 and '98, and gaping security 
> holes
> in 2000 and beyond.
>
> They hated IBM viscerally and they loved Microsoft.  Now, it's come 
> back to
> haunt them.  Magazines such as PC Mag are a pittance of what they used 
> to
> be.

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