MS-LyX was Re: Microsoft buying OpenBSD from announce?

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> And bigger code.  I'm deeply concerned about using small
> binaries to tackle big problems.  You don't knock down
> a door with a pencil - you use a big battering ram.
> 
> How people can use something as small as VI when we have
> big tools like Word and EMacs to do the job ... well, bigger
> is beyond me.  That's why I've purchased 80GB and 120GB drives.
> Putting an OS on them that only uses 200MB is ridiculous.

Word, O so passe, I wish I could find the link to another announcement I
saw from Microsoft today.  MS is dumping Word for LyX, it seems that's
it's ability to run on OS/2 was what forced MS's hand.  Now that IBM has
gone hook, line and sinker after the Linux market Bill decided it was time
to recapture the OS/2 segment that they had so slyly led IBM to believe
had been abandoned by MS.  Unfortunately all the old OS/2 developers at MS
had been re-allocated to the new security focus at Microsoft so Bill had
to find an application that would still work on OS/2, hence MS-LyX.