Have they given up?

[Kris Sorem Sr]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:41:49 -0700, John Bridges wrote:

>I also left OS/2 a few years ago (I think I formatted over the last OS/2
>partition in late 1997?), slowly moved over to WinNT (now Win2000).
>
Another Microsoft marketing success story. Do you follow this logic with
other product purchases? Change to an inferior product because it is more
popular.

>Are you suggesting that BSW concentrate on the OS/2 version to gather new
>OS/2 users, and upgrade dollars from existing OS/2 PMMail users?
>
I'm suggesting that BSW continue support for OS2 (PMMail's initial
success). If there was *real* competition on product to product basis
without market leverage and coercion, I think the result would be the same
for the desktop client as it has been for the server/enterprise version.

>Or do you think they should try to attract Windows users who are likely
>already familiar with the free email clients available to them from Satan and
>other minor demons like Eudora and Netscape.

I think every third party developer should be free and unfettered to
support multiple platforms. Let the better o/s win. :-) The majority of
Windows users didn't chose their o/s. It was coercively provided to them
and they are ignorant of better alternatives.
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/s/~Kris <norseman@humboldt1.com>
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