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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)."
ohh great another dead OS for competition. No wonder Linux does so well.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Reminds me of a Walmart ATM that I went to and accedentally swipped my card backwards and boom, blue screen, rebooted as Windows NT. A few days later just to see if it would do it again I swipped my card backwards and boom same thing.
from then on everytime I went by that ATM I would blue screen it.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
mod this up as +5 informative/insightful.
I really liked the "unless the specific copyright you violate is the GPL, then it's worse than murder."
Ain't that the truth.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
So do you really have that remarkably bad grasp of the BSD license, or are you just a pathetic troll?
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Didn't keep up??
What a dumbfuck!!!
At onebbscon in Tampa there was 300 booths hawking
OS/2 and one with Windows....LOL
Keep up....you gotta be shittin me....
Better bone up on yer fuckin history mate..
Gates put in a phone call 15mins before w95 was released and threatened IBM...it was in the transcripts of the monopoly trial...
Typical don't know a fuckin thing windows asshole
mouth off from total ignorance...
why would anyone want to continue to use it. It was slower than anything. Just a horrible weighted down peice of garbage.