User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 19, 2005 @05:44AM from the another-oss-project dept.

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)."

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Interesting by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-19 05:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FIRST POST!!! ahahaa
Re:Is IBM is stupid? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-19 05:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The title of you post overflows with irony....
Oh, the irony! Won't somebody think of the irony!
Fir5tP post by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-19 05:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Is IBM is stupid? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-19 06:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Rule #1 of pointing out grammatical/spelling errors: Make sure your post doesn't have any of its own.

Technically, there should be two spaces after a colon.
Re:Is IBM is stupid? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-19 06:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Wrong. Today we are not stuck with monospaced fonts. There should only be one space after a period, colon, semi-colon, and comma.