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echo: os2
to: Steven Thompson
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-09-27 19:33:21
subject: It`s over. Period.

Steven Thompson wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> How about an alternative OS/2 OS?  Wouldn't that be neat?  Sort of the
 JS> OS/2 version of LINUX.  Oh, and never say never!

 ST> Something tells me that IBM wouldn't allow it...  Number
 ST> one, to run OS/2 programs, it would have to be licensed by
 ST> IBM, and also, you wouldn't be able to call it OS/2.  IBM
 ST> may not care about OS/2, but that doesn't mean they won't
 ST> protect their trademarks.

You heard of LINUX right?  AT&T owned that, lock stock and barrel, yet, Linus
managed to clone the damn thing, didn't he?


                                              Jack 
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