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Re: will i5/OS get the OS/2 treatment? WAS: Jakarta POI - HWPF forword files

On 8/11/06, Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>
It would only be fair and decent to open source it. After all IBM has
benefited from open source Linux and Apache. My guess is the past
history that will be the guide is HP/3000 and DEC VAX. Both in how
quickly they fell off the face of the earth and what corporate
decisions were made in regard to the stakeholders who were left
stranded.
</snip>

My guess on this is that there are enough IP issues (stuff IBM licensed,
stuff that they license to others, and stuff that may be questionable)
that this will never happen.


oh god, W-code strikes again!

all the software patents that apply to the i5 might have expired by
now.  I think they run for 20 years.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

-Steve

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