Reply to post: Re: hardball licensing tactics making it commercially suicidal for PC-makers to offer it

What is dead may never die: a new version of OS/2 just arrived

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Re: hardball licensing tactics making it commercially suicidal for PC-makers to offer it

That was the same reason BeOS was shut down and sold. They could not get dual boot because of illegal licensing restrictions and/or licensing cost threats on any dual boot. BeOS was an amazing bit of tech too but we all lost out because of anti-competitive business practices.

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