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From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: bloated operating systems
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John Fieber wrote:
> 
> This microsoft quote from an infoworld article caught my eye:
> 
>  "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving
>   it down the throats of our users," Maritz said regarding the concept
>   of delivering JFCs on top of the Windows operating system.
> 
...
> -john

Translated, this means:
"OS2 is just ANOTHER bloated OS because they include Java; to be THE
REALLY bloated OS you need ActiveX," Maritz meant to say.

	Pedro.