Many developers who had used OS/2 offered to rewrite any non-IBM code that was in OS/2 so IBM could at least release it as open source.
IBM declined. As we all know IBM has been very good at shooting itself in the foot over the years (multiple times). There is one vendor that still sells OS/2 under the name eComStation. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: "David L. Craig" <[email protected]> Reply-To: IBM List <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 12:17 PM To: IBM List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows > >Well, I think everyone's forgeting IBM never had exclusive >ownership of everything OS/2--that explains a lot in my mind. >-- ><not cent from sell> >May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! > >Dave_Craig______________________________________________ >"So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. > You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. > Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." >__--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
