Linux in a World Where Windows 3.0 Never Happened

covertbadger writes "Larry Osterman said farewell yesterday to David Weise, the developer he credits with getting applications to run in protected mode on Windows 3.0, which led directly to Microsoft choosing to push Windows instead of OS/2. Today he speculates on what the IT world would be like if Weise had never completed this work. Windows 95 would never have existed, OS/2 would be the de facto standard, and IBM would never have put weight behind Linux because it had its own operating system to push."

Comments

Re:Fallacy of the Never Happened

[oftheapes]

I know for certain that Jobs is probably kicking himself in the butt over this one all the time.
so you really know nothing at all then? did anyone on slashdot take high school english?

Re:Lucky streaks and closed minds

[SilverspurG]

GWB is not Hitler, on dozens of levels

Does everyone do this on purpose out of some misguided doe-eyed love for Bush?

Bush is Hitler who has graduated from politically correct school. There are some things you just cannot do anymore which were, more or less, acceptable and tolerated 70 years ago. That doesn't mean that GWB's mindset is any less iron-fisted, heavy-handed, dictatorial, and complete blashpemy against the concept of a Constitutional Republic.

Dig Hitler up. Send him to politically correct school. Make him understand,"No. You just can't do it that way. If you want to rule the entire nation according to your own delerious whims you'll just have to figure out a different way to get to the goal." You'll end up with our current Federal Gov't.