[0]wikinerd writes "Following an online petition in November 2007 by
[1]members of an OS/2 online community to open-source OS/2, IBM answered
by sending a letter via FedEx making it clear that [2]OS/2 is going to
remain closed-source, citing business, technical, and legal reasons. An
earlier petition in 2005 that had attracted over 11,000 signatures [3]
met
a similar response. Both petition letters to IBM Corp. can be viewed at
the [4]OS2World.com library. The End of Support period for OS/2
passed by
in December 2006, and the given IBM's response the future for OS/2
doesn't look bright, unless re-implementation projects such as [5]
Voyager
or [6]osFree attract the necessary critical mass of operating system
developers."
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