Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN

Here in comp.unix.solaris,
groenvel@xxxxxxxxxxx (John D Groenveld) spake unto us, saying:

>Win-OS/2 became an excuse for ISVs to not provide native OS/2 ports.

In the long run, WinOS2 may have hurt native OS/2 software development,
but it also added a lot of valuable applications to the mix that would
run on an OS/2 desktop.  It was a trade-off.

I still use programs like Visio, Quicken 98, and AOLPress under OS/2
today.  Without such software, I'd probably be using Linux or FreeBSD
instead.  Maybe even Solaris/x86 (which I've looked at several times).

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