http://www.osnews.com/story/7100/OS_2_to_Linux_Memory_management_IPC_and_file_handling Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 19:06:49 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Why?

Are there still apps (and drivers???) that need to be ported to linux from OS/2 of all places?? Thu, 20 May 2004 20:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Please stop it, this is a flamebait. IBM posted these series of articles because there ARE OS/2 bank and industrial applications that companies use for many years now and they need to be ported an alive platform.

This article never had the intention of showing how to port an email client or a paint application, but REAL bank apps that people DO need guidance on how to do it properly. Thu, 20 May 2004 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? -_-


IBM is going to lose big. Most Banks are moving to Windows. Thu, 20 May 2004 20:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? No, IBM does not lose. They also sell Windows+service and software for Windows... Thu, 20 May 2004 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? if IBm cannot opensource OS/2 b/c some of the source code is owned by microsoft, why doesn't IBm allow people to download OS/2 for "free" Thu, 20 May 2004 22:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? well, that would work since it worked for IE, but I assume MS lawyers are smarter than that and there is a stipulation in the licensing contract that says IBM must sell the software at a fair market price. Fri, 21 May 2004 04:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Yes, they have to sell it, as did IBM Australia when they included it on "The Australian PC Magazine" CD three years ago. Why don't IBM do this in other countries ? Fri, 21 May 2004 06:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? i have OS/2 2.1 that came free with a magazine years ago, so it was free in the UK too once. Fri, 21 May 2004 09:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? I've talked to the chief developer of OS/2 2.0 about this issue and he told me that IBM was not that stupid to sign deals that would prevent them to do whatever they want with the OS/2 sourcecode. He told me if IBM does not release the source it's because they don't want, not because they can't. As chief developer back then he must know it... Fri, 21 May 2004 09:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? so i can install it on old ps/2 machines Fri, 21 May 2004 19:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? well duh, of course they can release the source code to os/2 if they wanted. They made that part... Now the parts made by others like say boot code, they can't release, and technically, that ain't OS/2. So sure, they can release it, doesn't mean it will compile. And let's not forget the source may be dependant on other libraries... not that it matters. If you want free and sourcecode, go use Linux. I'm sticking with OS/2, thanks. There is truly no need for the source code for OS/2 to "open up". The pertinent parts for others (JFS, etc) have already been moved to linux by IBM. Sat, 22 May 2004 00:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments