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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. Yes... by bcmm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because Microsoft will give permission to realease code for a partly Windows-compatible system that they have some rights to. And they won't mind that projects like Wine will have a nice set of NTish API code to port.

    --
    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.