Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 25, 2005 @04:10AM 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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Is this possible? by Dionysus · 2005-04-25 04:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Didn't some company buy the right to sell the product (renaming to eComNetStation or something 'marketable')?

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Re:Lots of benefits - great idea by dtjohnson · 2005-04-25 06:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yes, the fact that IBM was able to release JFS under open source shows that IBM developed it without any participation from Microsoft. Obviously, IBM could do that then with other parts of OS/2.