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Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source

Posted by Hemos on from the not-likely-but dept.

Landreth writes "There is currently an ongoing petition taking place at OS2 World to get IBM to open source either the whole part or parts of OS/2 to the community. I would highly encourage the Linux community to take part of this open source petition as well due to the fact there are lots of interesting code base the they could benefit from. To sign the petition: http://www.os2world.com/petition/" Despite the jokes about it, there was some good stuff in OS/2; however, I'd rank the ability to open it up fairly low, since I suspect there's a fair amount of legal restrictions on elements of the code.

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  1. Microsoft owns a lot of the code by SocietyoftheFist · · Score: 5, Funny

    It taint gonna happen.

  2. Re:Not going to happen for a long, LONG time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Because of that comment in the network security code:
    /* Better fix this before the final release */
  3. Re:Windows DLL Code by njfuzzy · · Score: 4, Funny
    > There's your roadblock. (or your target...)

    I am guessing you have a Massachusetts drivers license?

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  4. Re:Huh? by WarPresident · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's OS/2? Like, half an operating system or something? :P

    Careful with that joke, it's an antique.

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  5. Re:Not going to happen for a long, LONG time... by hackstraw · · Score: 4, Funny

    For all you MS-apologists out there: when was the last time you saw an ATM with an error that wasn't an Window error?

    Sometimes I have seen an error message saying something like "This ATM has insufficient funds for your transaction." I've always been suspicious of those and thought that they might have been covering up something, but was never sure.

  6. Re:I'm In (293) - Many More Needed. by tolan-b · · Score: 3, Funny

    2001..

    Do I get a prize for it being a geeky film reference? :)