18 Jul
2020
18 Jul
'20
4:09 p.m.
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:32:26 +0200 (CEST)
Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users
wrote:
The punchline there is that OS/2 was written by Microsoft (under contract
from IBM).
Personally, I would be just as happy never to have to deal with Windows
again, but I'm forced to use a Windows 10 machine at work because one
of my occasional duties there is fixing old Excel macros (and washing my
hands thoroughly afterwards, because Visual Basic for Applications is a
disgusting excuse for a programming language).
E. Liddell
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Note that I never started out to be a Linux
crusader, nor did I think much
about the implications of "proprietary" software. It was only when I
couldn't
get my machines to do what I wanted (things that they used to do without
complaint); then I started doing some research, which eventually led me to
Linux, then GNU/Linux free/libre, Richard Stallman, et al. The same with
systemd versus init: systemd messed up my system, that's why I didn't like
it. Later came the philosophy and politics of computers and software, and all
that other stuff.
my history is a bit a mix of yours and other motives. I started out
with MSDOS, then a non-MS variant of DOS (4DOS?), then Desqview, then
OS/2, then RedHat. I wanted to avoid MS entanglement. (never
even contemplated Apple.) MS felt too intrusive and the aesthetics
was distasteful. not that IBM is so great but OS/2 had a bit more a
sense you are not wards of the corporation, you had a somewhat freer
hand or so it felt to me then.