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New who owns the source for OS2 and can it be freed
to the open source community and if so define benefits associated.
thanx,
bill
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New That day...
Would be a Glorious day for all to behold.

As we would have YAOS that "Just Works"(tm). I for one (unfortuneately) gave up really trying to get OS/2 anything about 2 years ago.

I still have my install media (diskettes) for v1.1 and v1.2. And I still have my FREE upgrade letter from IBM for one of those versions. I also have v2.0 "black" media (The disk labels are black with white lettering) and v2.1 withe the "white label". Also still have "OS/2 for Wimdows"... *THAT* was an Oxymoron, it'd be more akin to "OS/390 for MS-DOS" --- YEOW!

Don't have any version of Warp 3/4 at all anymore I gave them to a people dying to have em... and they still use them. I went onto more "attackable" options, those being Linux and *BSD.

Do not get me wrong... there would be *A-LOT* of lessons to be learned from that OS. As well as ALOT of things being immiediately ported to OS/2 that wasn't already. Maybe VM problems would just go away in Linux once the methodologies in OS/2 were discovered. Maybe even some good ideas for the device mapping would also come out of it. Maybe even some of the problems with OS/2 would get resolved with a "Duh, why didn't it get done like this?" fixes.

A gloriuos day indeed. I am sure there is a TON of IP through NDAs in OS/2. It would be tricky indeed to "FREE" OS/2, but a trick worth learning and doing!

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New Nope
Too many fingers in the pie especially Microsoft. They would never allow any part of OS/2 that they have written be made available to Open Source so Linux and BSD can beat them further.

If IBM was to strip out all the other IP from other companies, you wouldn't have an OS. Can you actually imagine trying to sort out what is what when next to none of the developers are there working on it? On top of that it isn't even portable. There is a tonne of x86 ASM in there.

Lastly, what motivation would IBM have in even doing that? They're not going to make any money on it and the public goodwill won't match the amount of money they'll have to put into releasing the thing.

Geez people, as a long time former OS/2 user and a big proponent (even did a trade show or two), it's time to officially bury OS/2 once and for all. It's a damn shame that it never fully succeeded but it was a good ride for a while. :-)
lister
New Re: Nope
There are four kinds of people:

Those who believe that the speed of light can be circumvented, and that the WPS will be ported.

Those who believe that the speed of light is the way things are, and that the WPS will be ported.

Those who believe that the speed of light can be circumvented, but the WPS is history.

Me.
-drl
     who owns the source for OS2 and can it be freed - (boxley) - (3)
         That day... - (folkert)
         Nope - (lister) - (1)
             Re: Nope - (deSitter)

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