Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source

[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:37:29PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/, 
> http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1114351645), 
> there is a discussion on encouraging the Linux community to participate. 
> The author states "I would highly encourage the Linux community to take part 
> of this open source petition as well due to the fact there are lots of 
> interesting code base the they could benefit from".

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.

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