Post #443,867
1/10/24 10:44:02 PM
1/10/24 10:44:02 PM
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Just in case...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/the Hobbes OS/2 software archive is to be shuttered once and for all in April.
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive, run as a service by the Department of Information & Communication Technologies at the US New Mexico State University, has announced its impending demise. As of April 15, the site will no longer exist.
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Post #443,868
1/11/24 2:27:28 AM
1/11/24 2:27:39 AM
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Has anyone replicated it on WayBack or something...?
Edited by CRConrad
Jan. 11, 2024, 02:27:39 AM EST
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Post #443,871
1/11/24 10:32:03 AM
1/11/24 10:32:03 AM
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Shouldn't be hard - I can't imagine it's at all large by modern standards
A cursory search indicates it's about 15GB, which while not nothing, is pretty darn small.
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Post #443,872
1/11/24 11:01:43 AM
1/20/24 3:20:39 PM
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Anyone with a spare iPhone 4 or newer to donate could store that
Edited by drook
Jan. 20, 2024, 03:20:39 PM EST
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Post #443,873
1/12/24 1:10:48 AM
1/12/24 1:17:33 AM
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Eggzackerlee
Ee Tee Ay:
Like VMS, OS/2 is probably overdue for being made fully open-source.
Also like VMS, it’s almost certainly all-but-impossible to unpick and resolve the licensing situation.
Edited by pwhysall
Jan. 12, 2024, 01:17:33 AM EST
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Post #443,876
1/20/24 3:40:35 AM
1/20/24 3:40:35 AM
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Yes, that is the case.
IBM was petitioned to open-source OS/2, but they actually replied and explained why they couldn't. There is lots of code they licensed many years ago and don't own the rights to open-source it. Some of the licensees no longer exist, either.
Wade.
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Post #443,877
1/20/24 3:22:32 PM
1/20/24 3:22:32 PM
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What's the legal status if the rights holder no longer exists?
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Post #443,882
1/20/24 9:14:49 PM
1/20/24 9:14:49 PM
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Copyright goes with the carcass
If you can't track down who owns it, you're SOL until it expires.
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Post #443,883
1/21/24 12:24:18 PM
1/21/24 12:24:18 PM
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This must have been back when they had some actual credibility as an Open Soure champion... :-(
i.e. before implementing that super-sleazy "You're not allowed to redistribute ostensibly 'Open' RHEL source code under the terms of your RHEL support contract" shit in their Purple Hat subsidiary. --
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #443,885
1/24/24 2:51:03 AM
1/24/24 2:51:03 AM
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Yah, decades ago.
One of the things they did do at the time was make a version of the Workplace Shell that ran on Windows 3. And it was completely free.
Wade.
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