And then Andy Roberts mumbled something about 'It's NOT over. Period.'.

You might notice that I changed the subject yet again.

 AR> Microsoft FUD, just judging from the inappropriate Subject.

If people judge the *content* of a message just by its title, then I am not so 
surprised that people take the hollow advertising slogans by Microsoft as the
pure gospel. Apparently this brain-dead behaviour is not just a key-quality of 
Windows-users, but of "intelligent" OS/2 users as well.

 AR> Would you like to know some of the effects your BS has had on others?

Please do. Oh well informed Guru!

 AR> My sister-in-law who is a new OS/2 user found your Subject thread
 AR> alarming. She was worried and wanted to know if that would effect her.

She worried for all the right reasons. Just point your browser to the Software 
Choice page of IBM (if you know how to do that at all) and read for yourself:
As of 1/1/2000 there won't be anymore free lunch. No more free downloads of
Netscape. No more free updates to JAVA. No more free ... etc...
So unless your sister-in-law is willing to fork out some (what is it)
US$279,-- per 2 years just for some updates that are free for about every
other known opsys in the universe, she has indeed reasons to worry.
That is of course unless she never uses Netscape, JAVA or what-you-have.

 AR> Granted some people happen to worry more than others.  And some
 AR> people like you deliberately try to make others worry about nothing.

Indeed nothing. Where will *you* get your next update of JAVA? Of Netscape/2?

 AR> And then some people like me have to take the time to set the record
 AR> straight.

Well, maybe you should get better information sources, mr "Straight" guy.

 AR>   That's why IMO you like Brad Wardell are in the SOB class.

Well, if you want to know: People like you are imo in the "should be
sterilized and spare the human race further polution of the gene pool" class.
You are too blind to see the truth even if you wanted to.

As IBM started out: they again are only aiming at the *real* big companies.
And those big companies don't need a new fat-client. They are (and rightly
so!) very happy still using OS/2 2.1, 3.0 and some of them even 4.0. And they
can easily afford the subscription to Software Choice for their updates to
JAVA and browsers and the likes. So why would IBM bother with people like you
and me?

 AR> No doubt that BS Brad Wardell started has had an adverse effect on
 AR> OS/2.  That's why people see him as a SOB.

So I again ask the same question to you: Why is it then that people like Tim
Martin who with his fanatic flaming of people who asked serious questions
about OS/2 has singlehandedly driven probably more people away from even
trying OS/2 is *not* a SOB but a "Godlike creature"?

Sure, Brad's remarks probably hurt, but over the last few years a lot more
damage has been done by all those fanatic OS/2 advocates who relish in burning 
everyone who even dares looking at other op-syses to the ground.

 AR> Personally I'm really fed up with these repetitive "chicken little"
 AR> type FUD announcements like you made in this echo.

Well, again: Turn to IBM (software chjoice) itself, Oh Great Guru With All The 
Straight Answers. And then see if you please can choke on the foot sticking
down your throat.

 AR> Both of you did things to earn a very bad reputation.

And you and countless others do things that deserve you the reputation of
ill-informed, ignorant, little cry babies who should have their diapers
changed by their mothers.

You have a brain for crying out loud! It would suit you a lot better if you
would just for once USE it.


// Frits //

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