Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source

[gerald.feldman at hp.com (Jerry Feldman)]

On Monday 25 April 2005 1:42 pm, Derek Martin wrote:
> I don't think this will ever happen... ?OS/2 was originally developed
> with Microsoft, and no doubt contains a lot of Microsoft proprietary
> code. ?I'm sure IBM will be legally obliged to keep that code secret.
This is possibly so. But, I don't know how much Microsoft proprietary code 
is in OS/2. This is where the major rift between Microsoft and IBM. I 
suspect that there are contracts in place that may prevent IBM from 
OpenSourcing it. 
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Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com>
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