Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.
As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.
On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.
I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.