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By "history" I mean what transpired with other midrange operating systems: SCP and SSP. And I still know companies using these. Their systems are still running fine (as in, "as designed"), but they get no support from IBM or any third party, as regards the OS.
But this is no different from other vendors. I doubt that many of them would think that it would be in their best interests to do so. Has M$ release *any* DOS version to open source? Or even any software from any vendor that they acquired and then dumped? Linux is an exception because it wasn't initially designed and released by a vendor. Open Office is another exception.
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Steve Richter wrote:
On 8/11/06, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Also just to correct another misconception in this thread - OS/2 continued to be supported _long_ after IBM stopped marketing it as a desktop competitor to Windows. If I recall it was the driving software for many of the early ATMs long after. There's still quite a lot of it about.the os/2 experience is relevant because we need to know what IBM mgmt will do when it can no longer make a profit selling i5/os to its locked in customers. Will it go the os/2 route and continue to "support" it while keeping it locked up, or will it release it to the open source community. -Steve
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