JD>    If I'm not wrong, you'll say that IBM never really supported OS/2.
 JD> IBM will kill Linux. There's no chance there will be a new OS/2

 SD> That would be a really damned stupid move on IBM's part to kill an
 SD> open source OS.  Do you understand how Linux is designed?  It's not
 SD> a closed system like OS/2.  So, IBM can't kill off Linux.

   (First of all, that wasn't a statement. I see now that I should have quoted 
that whole section).

Anyway, you haven't been reading the Usenet OS/2 newgroups, have you?

   Many users who are upset with how IBM treat OS/2 say (with a lot of irony)
that "IBM will kill Linux" (since IBM is now supporting Linux). As you pointed 
out, that can not happen. However, some OS/2-users who do not know how Linux
works actuallt think that IBM can kill OS/2. Add that with bitterness over
what IBM is doing toward OS/2, and some users actually will claim that "IBM
will kill Linux".

   So don't worry, I wasn't serious. I was just grouping together a bunch of
things I've read from the "Stardock says OS/2 is dead, so it must be"-people.

 SD> This isn't a flame, this is a fact.

I know, and it wasn't new to me. I just wasn't clear enough.


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