On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:44:00 -0800 (PST), Rex Ballard
<rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Dec 8, 8:13 pm, flatfish <flatf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:00:45 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>>
>> <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >Should IBM's OS/2 Be Open-Sourced?
>>
>> err.....
>> One minor problem.
>> Microsoft *owns* some of it, code, HPFS for one and somehow I don't
>> think they are going to like this idea.
>
>That is one of the big questions. I haven't seen the actual agreement
>between IBM and Microsoft, I just got the glop of compiled code that
>Microsoft gave to Boca Raton. I'd work for about 3 hours, OS/2 would
>crash, and I'd spend 3 hours reinstalling OS/2 2.0 using about 30
>floppy disks. It was painful.
>
>I'm not sure exactly what Microsoft "Gave" to IBM, and what they
>"Licensed" to IBM. IBM supposedly "Owned" all of the OS/2 code. Not
>sure if that included HPFS or not.
When OS/2 is booting, read the copyright at the bottom of the screen,
while it is still a black text screen.
It says Microsoft and ADP contract, ADP being Automatic Data
Processing or something like that.
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