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User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2
axonis writes "A report on Tom's Hardware tells of one of the last active OS/2 user groups, which has announced an initiative to garner support for IBM to release its long-neglected OS/2 operating system into the open source community. IBM announced earlier this month that it will withdraw its operating system OS/2 officially from sale on December 23 this year and will offer support only through 2006." From the article: "Making OS/2 Open Source will benefit all IBM customers that had invested in this OS...Customers that are willing to continue using OS/2 will get the benefits of an open OS that will be continuously developed by individual developers and/or software companies, their ownership fees will decrease and they will have the enhanced security of an OS that will continue to be relevant due to the open-ended nature of open source (following the BSD and Linux examples)."
There already is a successor to OS/2.
It's called Windows.
Id also suggest that there may be things in the code they dont want us seeing for other reasons, like copyright violations. This is of course the essence of closed source code in my opinion.
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...
Its OS/2, for Christ's sake. Get over it.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.