A cursory search indicates it's about 15GB, which while not nothing, is pretty darn small.
![]() A cursory search indicates it's about 15GB, which while not nothing, is pretty darn small. |
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![]() -- Drew |
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![]() 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. |
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![]() 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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![]() -- Drew |
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![]() If you can't track down who owns it, you're SOL until it expires. |
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![]() 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 Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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![]() 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. |