Hallo Frits!

 FS> Don't get me wrong: I *love* OS/2 and use it every day. But now IBM 
 FS> has finally made it official that there will never again be a new 

IBM has not made anything official. Brad Wardell from Stardock has posted his
opinion about what he thinks *some* person at IBM has decided into the OS/2
newsgroups, drawn *his personal* conclusions from this, and afterwards told
the readers to buy ObjectDesktop for Windows. Waht do we conclude from this?

I don't know. What I do now is that there were also IBMers posting that the
meeting Brad was talking about had not taken place because some of the
importand attendees could not get there because of the Hurricane.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to say Brad Wardell did not say the truth,
but I want to say that IBM has made nothing official. There has not been a
decision against OS/2, there has just not yet been a decision in favour of it. 
Just like in the last two years. And I don't think it is fair from Brad to
spread this over all the news tickers so that all the newspapers will again
write that "OS/2 is dead". This is what is really causing harm, not IBM's
non-decision.

The whole discussion can be followed in the Usenet advocacy areas, I won't
repeat it here. I am also worried about what is happening, but I don't think
it is already time to give up.

If you do think this, well, it is upon yours. There are a lot of LINUX, MAC,
Beos, and Windows Fido areas out there, just go over there and see if you will 
find what you are looking for. As for me, I'll continue to use OS/2 as long as 
it serves my needs best (and this did not change just because of a Usenet
posting from Brad), and I'll hope to continue to find fellow OS/2 users in
Fidonet. :-)

Viele Grüße,
Tobias

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