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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2008 23:33 UTC

IBM pretty much slammed the solid oak door on open sourcing os/2. "As stated in our response to your September 2005 letter we have considered the positioning of os/2 and open source several times in the past, and for a variety of business, technical, and legal reasons we have decided to not pursue any os/2 open source projects."

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RE[2]: Open OS/2

by Dutch_Cap on Tue 22nd Jan 2008 01:58 UTC in reply to "RE: Open OS/2"

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"I would be interesting to see someone do the same thing the haiku project is working tword. To make an open source clone of OS/2.

And maybe we can call it:

"Open Source/who"?

Get it? os/2...open source/who?

Aw, never mind! "
I suggest the logo should be a blue police box.

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