Saturday, December 08 2007: OS/2
I received the email below today. Please consider signing the petition for IBM to release the OS/2 source.
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Malmö, 7 december 2007: More than two years ago on September 25, 2005, we sent IBM a letter with a petition that contained 11,613 signatures requesting IBM to release the source code of Operating System 2 (OS/2 Warp) - or at least release the source code that IBM owns - to the public under an open source license. Sadly IBM was ignorant enough to not answer our first letter and this is why we sent a second letter to IBM.
On November 19, 2007, we sent the second letter to IBM where we insisted on implementing the stipulations contained in this petition because we believe that OS/2 is an important part of the history of the Operating System, and furthermore, it still contains values that the computer science field considers unique.
After talks with the OS/2 development community, we have found that the following three important components will be basic to the continued development of OS/2:
* SOM (System Object Model) Core. This will also be a good contribution to the open source community in general and to the computer science educational area.
* Workplace Shell (WPS). According to press documentation, the OS/2 graphical user interface (GUI) was developed 100% by IBM. There are no third party restrictions to open sourcing it.
* OS/2 Kernel.
We have also opened up a 2nd petition round to get IBM to open source OS/2. So for those of you who believe this should be in the best interest for all involved parties; please then sign the new petition (this way we can also keep you informed about the petition progress) that has been set up at following link:
http://www.os2world.com/petition
Who did we send the letter to:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15847/1/
Also, as always we really need the entire community to spread and post information to local, regional and national news sites all over; so we really would like to ask all of you to pass on this information and comments old and new stories where OS/2 is mentioned. We did great last time; let's make it even better this time!
With Kindest Regards,
Kim Haverblad
Webmaster & Founder
OS2 World Foundation
Sweden
http://www.os2world.com
Note: You are getting this e-mail since you have earlier signed the OS2 World Petition list. To be updated with progress regarding the new petition, we then kindly ask you to sign it -> http://www.os2world.com/petition
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Malmö, 7 december 2007: More than two years ago on September 25, 2005, we sent IBM a letter with a petition that contained 11,613 signatures requesting IBM to release the source code of Operating System 2 (OS/2 Warp) - or at least release the source code that IBM owns - to the public under an open source license. Sadly IBM was ignorant enough to not answer our first letter and this is why we sent a second letter to IBM.
On November 19, 2007, we sent the second letter to IBM where we insisted on implementing the stipulations contained in this petition because we believe that OS/2 is an important part of the history of the Operating System, and furthermore, it still contains values that the computer science field considers unique.
After talks with the OS/2 development community, we have found that the following three important components will be basic to the continued development of OS/2:
* SOM (System Object Model) Core. This will also be a good contribution to the open source community in general and to the computer science educational area.
* Workplace Shell (WPS). According to press documentation, the OS/2 graphical user interface (GUI) was developed 100% by IBM. There are no third party restrictions to open sourcing it.
* OS/2 Kernel.
We have also opened up a 2nd petition round to get IBM to open source OS/2. So for those of you who believe this should be in the best interest for all involved parties; please then sign the new petition (this way we can also keep you informed about the petition progress) that has been set up at following link:
http://www.os2world.com/petition
Who did we send the letter to:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15847/1/
Also, as always we really need the entire community to spread and post information to local, regional and national news sites all over; so we really would like to ask all of you to pass on this information and comments old and new stories where OS/2 is mentioned. We did great last time; let's make it even better this time!
With Kindest Regards,
Kim Haverblad
Webmaster & Founder
OS2 World Foundation
Sweden
http://www.os2world.com
Note: You are getting this e-mail since you have earlier signed the OS2 World Petition list. To be updated with progress regarding the new petition, we then kindly ask you to sign it -> http://www.os2world.com/petition
