Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Posted Aug 2, 2023 7:42 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view by gfernandes
Parent article: Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

> Anyway, Microsoft was seen as the enemy because they were. Because of the way they went after any perceived threat (Borland, Netscape, IBM itself, for OS/2, among others).

WordPerfect, Lotus, ...

Both DOS and Windows were very picky who their "friends" were. How often were Microsoft products hit by bugs? Compare that to how often 3rd-party products got hit ... IME both WFWG 3.1 and Office 95 achieved a 100% kill rate when installed over WP6.0 ...

Cheers,
Wol