IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2

wikinerd writes "Following an online petition in November 2007 by members of an OS/2 online community to open-source OS/2, IBM answered by sending a letter via FedEx making it clear that OS/2 is going to remain closed-source, citing business, technical, and legal reasons. An earlier petition in 2005 that had attracted over 11,000 signatures met a similar response. Both petition letters to IBM Corp. can be viewed at the OS2World.com library. The End of Support period for OS/2 passed by in December 2006, and the given IBM's response the future for OS/2 doesn't look bright, unless re-implementation projects such as Voyager or osFree attract the necessary critical mass of operating system developers."

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Nigger Day is Almost Over

[Anonymous Coward]

Have some affirmative action and welfare, you worthless nigger.

Now get you ass to the back of the bus.

Fuck you too, spick.

Those fucking niggers

[Anonymous Coward]

What a bunch of cunts.
Anyone with me on this?

Re: NIGGERS JACKING OFF IN YOUR PUSSY

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF? What a vulgar subject. What an inappropriate post. Really, Princess Diana? Was that necessary?

Can someone please ban parent poster?

"Oh, the Humanity!"

[Anonymous Coward]

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Please ban this racist.

[Anonymous Coward]

As an African American I find this extremely offensive.

To have such vile things said on a prominant website on MLK day is unconsionable.

You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this garbage, vermin. Ban this hate speach. Banish it from the internet.

We won't be free until every racist is silenced.

Re:Please ban this racist.

[Anonymous Coward]

I like my Internet free, and not constrained, not even by those who seek to do good.

So why do you come to slashdot?

The slashcode mod system was designed explicitly to constrain the socially-unacceptable, albeit using more flexible and tolerant means than, say, Hitler.

Slashdot is inherently anti-freedom, and there is no good reason to refrain from banning those who, using the community groupthink, have determined are worth less than nothing (-1).

Re:Please ban this racist.

[X3J11]

And when education and ridicule fail, a trip out to the back lot with good ol' Mr. Rifle isn't such a bad idea. Some of them are just so far gone into their beliefs of racial superiority that their continued existence is an insult to humanity. Oops, I'm off-topic. Forgive me.

lolwut

[Anonymous Coward]

The slashdot mod system was enacted to enable the reader to choose what they wanted to see.

Re:lolwut

[Anonymous Coward]

The German concentration camp system was enacted to enable the Germans to choose which races they wanted to see

Re:But why?

[Eli Gottlieb]

the current petition to get Goldeneye on XBox live arcade is at 18,000 signatures and growing. I still don't see why they shouldn't just put Goldeneye on the Wii Virtual Console. Since it was an N64 game in the first place it'd be much cheaper that way.

Don't mind Mii.

we can't get os/2 code how about the beos or amiga

[Joe The Dragon]

If we can't get the os/2 code how about the beos or the Amiga os code?

Re:But why?

[knivesx11]

Because the James Bond video game liscense is owned by Atari, I believe Golden Eye trademark is owned by EA games, and the source code to Goldeneye is owned half by rare and half by nintendo. Basicly its locked in IP hell.