On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:00:45 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@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.
IBM for example has had a tool/utility to convert NTFS/FAT to HPFS and
back again, old news now, but back in the days of Microsoft pulling
out of the OS/2 project, for NT, they, Microsoft would not let IBM
release the tool.
It got leaked but of course those were sneaker net days so it was not
widespread like it would be today.
Some IBM zSeries machines use OS/2 for their System Support Element
and Hardware Management Consoles.
Some IBM tape libraries use OS/2 for their Library Manager consoles.
Some IBM check sorting machines still use OS/2 for their consoles.
IBM has been moving these off of OS/2 and current prodcution models
run either Windows or Redhat Linux.
That being said, IBM is not going to release OS/2 open source for a
while.
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