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OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System

Posted by timothy on from the warped-minds dept.

Grayskull writes "The OS/2 and eComStation community are trying to get open source software ported to that platform by opening bounties and allowing people to chip in with prize money. Currently the most important open bounties are Java 6 port, Icon routines in OS/2, VirtualBox port, Extend multimedia and OpenWengo ports."

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  1. Bounties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not even Boba Fett would do /that/ job for /that/ bounty.

  2. Team OS/2! by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Funny

    OS/2! Named after the number of users remaining!

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  3. Truly hopeless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously, this is like getting grandma a boobjob so maybe she can score a young IT guy with money.

    Donate it to the community or give it up!

    1. Re:Truly hopeless by darkpixel2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      They can't open source it. It's encumbered.

      Are we still talking about OS/2 or his grandmother?

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    2. Re:Truly hopeless by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thank you, I'm going to have to scrub my brain with bleach now.

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  4. What! by k33l0r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone is still using OS/2? Perhaps there should also be bounties for porting software to Win 95 & NT 4.0 and Linux kernel v1.0...

    1. Re:What! by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, I can see a huge bright future for ATMs running Java and GIMP and Firefox and Chrome.

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  5. Not very bountiful by rickkas7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How hard up for money do you need to be to port GTK+ 2.x to OS/2 for $ 30?

  6. Community? by clockwise_music · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's an OS/2 community?

    And I thought that Trekkies were nerdy.