Tis a real shame... We still run four boxes with various flavors of OS/2.
On Wed Jan 23 7:50 , Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >[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." > >Discuss this story at: > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl\?sid=08/01/22/0258213 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
