Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[Odd]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Odd wrote:
> 
>> Michael Haney wrote:
> 
>>> IBM just couldn't compete with
>>> Micro$oft's marketing department
>> Not only that, they couldn't compete with themselves. Back then, IBM
>> was divided in several units that competed internally. This meant that
>> IBM's own PC unit used Windows instead of OS/2. Talk about shooting
>> themselves in the foot.
> 
> To be fair to IBM, that wasn't IBM's fault.  That was the US Department of 
> Justice and anti-trust legislation, back when the DoJ actually had teeth and 
> didn't just do big-businesses bidding.

That may be. But I still don't see why they couldn't use OS/2 on
the PCs they sold. It's not like they didn't have sufficient competition
in Windows.

>>> and the borderline illegal
>>> contractual agreements made with PC makers prevented them from
>>> offering anything else other than Win95.
>> There was that too. But IBM's biggest problem was IBM.
> 
> And yet when MS reached the same point, DoJ slapped them on the wrist and 
> said "Carry on".

It's like you said, the DOJ lost its teeth. And it was right after Bush 
took over.
Coincidence? I think not..

-- 
Odd