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echo: os2
to: SEAN DENNIS
from: DON LOWERY
date: 2020-06-01 20:24:00
subject: Re: ArcaOS DOS window fi

 SD> why they chose to use it to create NT, et cetera).  From what I've heard
 SD> from IBM insiders--now this is going on the better part of twenty years
 SD> ago but I am safely assuming this is still true--M$ is afraid if OS/2
 SD> was open sourced, they'd wind up getting an open-sourced OS/2-Windows
 SD> hybrid that they'd lose to. XD

Also take it that if Arca could get away with it...setting up WINE to run
current Windows programs would be the game changer Microsux is especially
afraid of? Wished we could run the same route as React OS without still being
in alpha 20-30 years later.

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