Death Knell for OS/2 Client

[Jay Gibberman]

According to me Tim Sipples and Steven King need
to talk and get their story straight. I report what I heard.

-Jay


On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:08:52 -0700 (PDT), Steve Wendt wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:02:12 -0400 (EDT), Darin McBride wrote:
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>>>According to Stephen King at Warp Expo West speaking in front of 
>>>approximately 100 people, Brad Wardell is wrong. No meeting took
>>>place. It was canceled. He says he should know he is on the committee.
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>According to Tim Sipples:
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>The meeting didn't take place because there was a meeting ahead of the meeting,
>at which it was decided there wasn't any need to have a meeting because IBM 
>was not going to pursue Stardock's proposal (and the "agreement in principle"
>between IBM and Stardock).  (You see, you only have *that* meeting to *approve*
>agenda items.)
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>IBM hasn't ruled any third party out of offering a new client, but it hasn't ruled any 
>third party (or itself) *in*, either.  (IBM almost never rules anything out.)  Brad's 
>statement was accurate; Stardock anticipates no change in IBM's stance.
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>Brad's statement was also accurate that IBM has received more than one offer.
>Thus far IBM has rejected all of them "at this time."
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>"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, 
>while bad people will find a way around the laws." 
>     - Plato (427-347 B.C.) 
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