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How is this open source? From the article...

Faced with IBM's withdrawal from marketing OS/2, OS/2 World sent a petition to IBM executives last November that was signed by more than 11,000 people, asking that the OS/2 source code be open sourced. Martin Iturbide of OS/2 World says they have received no reply -- nor did the recipients reply to my request to discuss the petition.


7 posted on 02/17/2006 10:52:17 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
How is this open source? From the article...

Read the first paragraph ya freaking troll.

After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of GNU/Linux or FreeBSD have turned to free and open source software (FOSS) for political and philosophical freedom and software quality, the surviving OS/2 community has been turning to FOSS as a means of defending members' right to use the operating system of their choice. The result is a small but surprisingly diverse collection of projects that, to a GNU/Linux user, is a mixture of the familiar and exotic.

8 posted on 02/17/2006 10:58:12 AM PST by zeugma (Muslims are varelse...)
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