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"Unlike Windows, OS/2 didn't crash, and it wasn't from a company that had an obnoxious sense of entitlement."

IBM as the corporate model for humility? Quite a thought.

Hard to imagine, but true. Largely as a matter of contrast, because Microsoft was _way_ too big for its britches at the time.

Yea, while the MS-IBM JDA was not very good the alternative MS chose was a lot worse.