Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source

Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source 503

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:10PM from the not-likely-but dept.

Landreth writes "There is currently an ongoing petition taking place at OS2 World to get IBM to open source either the whole part or parts of OS/2 to the community. I would highly encourage the Linux community to take part of this open source petition as well due to the fact there are lots of interesting code base the they could benefit from. To sign the petition: http://www.os2world.com/petition/" Despite the jokes about it, there was some good stuff in OS/2; however, I'd rank the ability to open it up fairly low, since I suspect there's a fair amount of legal restrictions on elements of the code.

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Microsoft owns a lot of the code (Score:5, Funny)

by SocietyoftheFist ( 316444 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:13PM (#12337420)

It taint gonna happen.

Re:I'm In (293) - Many More Needed. (Score:3, Funny)

by lilmouse ( 310335 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:13PM (#12337422)

Hey, now we know how many signatures there are at the beginning of the slashdotting! Now, if someone will dupe the story in 3-4 days, we can see how many signatures got added :-D

--LWM

Full name & DOB? (Score:2, Funny)

by 0xdeaddead ( 797696 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:13PM (#12337424) Homepage Journal

What are you crazy?! I mean I know OS/2 users are in denial, but geez this is INSANE!

Huh? (Score:1, Funny)

by xenostar ( 746407 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:13PM (#12337425)

What's OS/2? Like, half an operating system or something? :P

According to the BOFH (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:24PM (#12337568)

According to the BOFH there are two remaining users of OS/2. Did they have a convention? Does two count as a convention?

If they both sign the petition, it will be unanimous. Surely, IBM will bend to a unanimous decision.

Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

by wootest ( 694923 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:41PM (#12337796)

Per that, is OS X 20 times the OS OS/2 will ever be? ;)

Re:Not going to happen for a long, LONG time... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:46PM (#12337847)

Because of that comment in the network security code:

/* Better fix this before the final release */

OS (Score:3, Funny)

by BenjyD ( 316700 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:55PM (#12337941)

A petition to make the OS OS2 OSS?

Re:Windows DLL Code (Score:5, Funny)

by njfuzzy ( 734116 ) writes: <[moc.x-nai] [ta] [nai]> on Monday April 25, 2005 @01:06PM (#12338091) Homepage

> There's your roadblock. (or your target...)
I am guessing you have a Massachusetts drivers license?

Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

by WarPresident ( 754535 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @01:18PM (#12338260) Homepage Journal

What's OS/2? Like, half an operating system or something? :P

Careful with that joke, it's an antique.

Re:Not a chance (Score:2, Funny)

by kfg ( 145172 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @01:31PM (#12338406)

The enemy of my enemy is my friend - even if they're my enemy.

KFG

Petition to keep OS/2 closed (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @01:34PM (#12338443)

gets my vote.

Re:Not going to happen for a long, LONG time... (Score:5, Funny)

by hackstraw ( 262471 ) * writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @01:39PM (#12338513)

For all you MS-apologists out there: when was the last time you saw an ATM with an error that wasn't an Window error?

Sometimes I have seen an error message saying something like "This ATM has insufficient funds for your transaction." I've always been suspicious of those and thought that they might have been covering up something, but was never sure.

Re:I'm In (293) - Many More Needed. (Score:3, Funny)

by tolan-b ( 230077 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @02:01PM (#12338764)

2001..

Do I get a prize for it being a geeky film reference? :)

Linux Community? (Score:3, Funny)

by ReadParse ( 38517 ) writes: <john&funnycow,com> on Monday April 25, 2005 @02:19PM (#12338948) Homepage

I would highly encourage the Linux community to take part of this open source petition

Then what are you doing here? Everybody knows Slashdot is a Mac site now :)

RP

^^^ THERE THEY ARE!!! ^^^^ (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 25, 2005 @02:31PM (#12339080)

Both of them, here on Slashdot. Who would have guessed.
I know that I feel honored.

Re:Ah, so you admit there ARE OS/2 users... ;-) (Score:3, Funny)

by Richard Steiner ( 1585 ) writes: <rsteiner@visi.com> on Monday April 25, 2005 @06:34PM (#12341882) Homepage Journal

Uh oh... I'm being followed. :-)

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Microsoft owns a lot of the code (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm In (293) - Many More Needed. (Score:3, Funny)

Full name & DOB? (Score:2, Funny)

Huh? (Score:1, Funny)

According to the BOFH (Score:1, Funny)

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Re:Not going to happen for a long, LONG time... (Score:3, Funny)

OS (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Windows DLL Code (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

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Petition to keep OS/2 closed (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Not going to happen for a long, LONG time... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm In (293) - Many More Needed. (Score:3, Funny)

Linux Community? (Score:3, Funny)

^^^ THERE THEY ARE!!! ^^^^ (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Ah, so you admit there ARE OS/2 users... ;-) (Score:3, Funny)

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