Petition to open OS/2's source

[Schotty]

http://www.os2world.com/petition/

[Stuart]

I signed it this morning.

[mojo jojo]

[quote author=Stuart link=board=13;threadid=10396;start=0#msg93653 date=1114469353]
I signed it this morning.
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[Tyr_7BE]

This was brought up on slashdot too. As neat as it would be to have it happen, it probably won't. Look what happened with the whole SCO thing...last time IBM open sourced potentially proprietary code it got burned. It won't make the same mistake twice.

[stryder144]

[quote author=Tyr_7BE link=board=13;threadid=10396;start=0#msg93655 date=1114474351]
This was brought up on slashdot too. As neat as it would be to have it happen, it probably won't. Look what happened with the whole SCO thing...last time IBM open sourced potentially proprietary code it got burned. It won't make the same mistake twice.
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This might give a little clue as to why you are probably correct.

Cheers

[gmoreno]

OS/2 is what got me thinking about an alternative os. I always liked os/2 better than Windows. I thought os/2 was so hot on our Demo Aptiva at RadioShack.

[Lovechild]

I remember running OS/2 Warp when I was in gradeschool - I really think it would be great to open source it, to preserve it as a part of IT history.

[Tyr_7BE]

[quote author=stryder144 link=board=13;threadid=10396;start=0#msg93656 date=1114480295]
[quote author=Tyr_7BE link=board=13;threadid=10396;start=0#msg93655 date=1114474351]
This was brought up on slashdot too. As neat as it would be to have it happen, it probably won't. Look what happened with the whole SCO thing...last time IBM open sourced potentially proprietary code it got burned. It won't make the same mistake twice.
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This might give a little clue as to why you are probably correct.

Cheers
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Hahaha...yep...that pretty much settles it ;D

It would be legal suicide.

[Stuart]

Has it become abandoneware yet?

[Lovechild]

[quote author=Stuart link=board=13;threadid=10396;start=0#msg93665 date=1114538621]
Has it become abandoneware yet?
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No it's still sold to day, many ATMs run OS/2 so those solutions are still sold with it e.g.