Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!noao!mcdsun!mcdchg!clyde!mtunx!whuts!picuxa!tgr From: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 is the result of anticompetitive practices by IBM and Microsoft Message-ID: <565@picuxa.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 14:18:00 GMT References: <1925@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) Organization: Planet 10, across the 8th Dimension Lines: 21 Summary: not a flame, just a nit :-) In article <1925@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: :Unix is effectively a commodity market. No way could they charge that :price indefinitely.) and even more important than that, IBM doesn't want :their customers traipsing off to follow Sun, Apollo, Cray, Apple, Sequent, :Tandem, Control Data, DEC, Amdahl &c &c &c. I suppose that AT&T is part of the &c, in spite of the fact that UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. BTW, most of what your article said was neither: a) disputable, b) new, nor c) surprising. (Is that lousy grammar, or what?) -- Tom Gillespie ( ...ihnp4!picuxa!tgr) | (attmail!tgillespie) (201) 952-1178 AT&T/EDS Product Integration Center 299 Jefferson Rd. Parsippany NJ 07054 "Don't take life so serious ... it ain't nohow permanent." -- Walt Kelly