From: Egan Orion 

I don't think we can place all the blame on the Vole, though that was a
very if not the deciding factor. IBM screwed up with OS/2, consistently.

 From the fragile install through stupid binary INI files to complex and
odd fixpak methods, IBM couldn't have made OS/2 harder if they'd tried.
While OS/2 was more stable, it was never really an end-user friendly OS.

Maybe someone will patch an OO desktop into Linux, but IBM is the last
organization one would want to see in control of any big Linux changes.

Egan


Joe Barr wrote:
>
> I like the notion, but there are major and fundamental differences between
> software and money that don't travel well.  OS/2 was certainly superior
> software, but the weight of the malignant monopoly kept it from ever being
> preloaded and thus it kept at arm's length from the market it needed to
> reach.

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