Original to Chris Holten of 1:106/2000 in "DR_DEBUG"
Forwarded on  by Alan Hess of 1:261/1000

Whilst masticating on , Chris Holten (1:106/2000)
wrote to Charles Angelich:

CH> The Fidonet died when OS2 died as that was the only operating 
CH> system fidonet developers with reasonably priced or freeware 
CH> supported software that could interface with the internet. At one 
CH> time there were over 30,000 fidonet BBS in the world. Used to be 
CH> you could come into this conference and say something about OS/2 
CH> vs Windows and the OS2 Zealots would shout non-believers down. 
CH> OS/2 won the fidonet FOSSIL based software wars. As as they say, 
CH> the rest is now history..

Yeah - virus-vulnerable MS servers won the Internet, because IBM did a
lousy job marketing the superior OS/2 Server software.

M$ won.  The users lost.

--- Msged/2 TE 05