Re: Norris' trial testimony

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by John J. Urbaniak on 6/12/1999 11:03 AM ---

>Give any other company all the technical advantages of OS/2 over Windows and
>Gates would have been reduced to a blubbering pile of jello.
>
>I still hold to my belief that there were/are Microsoft moles within IBM at
>high levels.

That's an interesting theory, but one that can't be proved or disproved. 
I think the known facts speak for themselves -- IBM was bleeding at an 
alarming rate during the early '90s, putting them in the mood to withdraw 
support for any project that didn't fatten the short-term bottom line 
significantly. One of those expendable projects was OS/2. If you look 
back a few years earlier, you'll find the source of IBM's bleeding -- 
their failure to retain control of the PC architecture. I realize we've 
already talked that one to death, and I only bring it up again because if 
you connect the dots, I think you'll find a cause and effect relationship 
that doesn't rely on unprovable conspiracy theories.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net