The guys were talking about it but I couldn't remember if it was part of a meeting or not. I am not really into it, either. I just thought that my internet search was giving me misleading information.
But thank you for satisfying my curiosity. I thought that it was something completely different, that it was designed to be a replacement for Windows by the computer manufacturers. Mark On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 19:59 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: > On 07/28/2010 07:53 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > > I did a google search but am concerned that the information about OS2 is > > either dated or slanted. > > > > Search results revealed the following. Somebody please comment on the > > accuracy. > > > > OS2 is not totally open source because some of the code that it uses is > > Microsoft proprietary code. Although something called OSFree is being > > developed, it is not ready for prime time. That means that it is not > > GPL. > > OS/2 isn't open source, or linux, and is also finally no longer > supported by IBM, so probably way too off topic for this group / list. > > It might make a good dinner time discussion if you are there next week. > > -Sean > -- Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 Visit my Blog, Mark Wallace Following Christ, at > http://markwallacefollowingchrist.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
