> want to lable it.. and they wanted more people to use thier product as
> apposed to IBM's product... so they ask thier competitor to leave a
> product behind... ok...
No, they *forced* their competitor to leave a product behind. In fair
practice, IBM would have been forced to leave their product behind because
of market pressure by consumers, not by pressure from Microsoft.
>
> > IBM refused, and at the last
> > hour, under pressure from their PC Company division, agreed to a compromise:
> > they would no longer market OS/2. At the time Warp version 3 was making
> > *major* gains, and had sold about 10 million retail copies. IBM already had
> > a preload agreement with Tandy (which they had to pull out of), and was
> > negotiating them with other manufacturers. However, they were not willing
> > to risk not being able to offer Windows.
>
> So... IBM, wanting to beable to use a MS licensed product gave up on one
> of thier own products...
>
> I fail to see what wrong was done here.. these sorts of deals get made all
> the time.. in many diffrent industries... known as "I'll scratch your back
> if you scratch mine"
Try "You'll scratch my back of you know what's good for you because
otherwise I'll force you totally out of business." This being from
Microsoft to IBM.
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