Yesterday saw IBM cease the sale of the OS/2 Operating system. Come the 31st of December, standard support for the OS will end also. However, a significant number of companies and people continue to use it, and they are finding ways for OS/2 to live on.
Back in April of this year, OS/2 website OS2 World started a petition. It's aim was to get IBM to release OS/2 as an open source piece of software, so that existing users could continue to use and develop it, should they wish. In November, after nearly twelve thousand signatures had been collected, the petition was sent to IBM's CEO, Sam Palmisano. As of yet there has been no response from IBM. [HEXUS.net]
Sunday, December 25, 2005
The future of OS/2 - Open source or not?
I have tried installing OS/2 on my computer when I was trying and discovering the different operating system available and it was a success..but it did not last long and I replace it with linux.
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