Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[Derek Broughton]

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.

>> 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".
-- 
derek