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To: damniseedemons who wrote (15873)	1/8/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, "During OS/2 cooperative development: Gates and Ballmer, tried to sell half of Microsoft to IBM" At the time of OS/2 development Gates/Allen owned half the company -- which half do you think they were willing to sell? Their half or your half? Personally, I believe they dumped their involvement with OS/2 because they did not have absolute control over its direction. MSFT is a control freak if you have not noticed. Personal Computing would have been far more productive if Microsoft had put the look and feel of Windows on top of OS/2 rather than waste everyone's time and efforts with the Windows "Bad" Experience as a whole. Didn't it take IBM something like a year to clean up MSFT's OS/2 code before they re-released OS/2? During that year, Windows made serious inroads into the market while IBM was left trying to rewrite the spaghetti code they inherited. Cheers, Norm

To: damniseedemons who wrote (15873)	1/8/1998 3:43:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

Actually, I heard something that really throws cold water on the "'brave and wily Microsoft' vs. 'stupid dolts at IBM'" legend: During OS/2 cooperative development: Gates and Ballmer, tried to sell half of Microsoft to IBM because they feared that IBM would otherwise destroy them. IBM refused to buy. Gates/Ballmer wondered why IBM wouldn't want an equity stake in their largest software partner....they took it to mean that it must mean that IBM didn't intend for Microsoft to be their partner for long--that IBM had already decided to eliminate Microsoft. So that's when Microsoft killed the OS/2 project partnership and went whole-hog after Windows--effectively declaring war on IBM. Where did you get this tidbit from?