[Linuxtrent] fw: The OS2 World.Com Petition status and update
- From: fred <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent <linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:51:49 +0100
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The reason that you receive this mail is
because that you signed the OS2 World.Com
petition to make IBM open source OS2.
This is ONE (1) time e-mail only.
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In april 2005, OS2 World.com started a petition to try to convince IBM
to release OS/2 as open source to the current customers that want to
keep OS/2 and for those long-time users who are considering migrating to
another OS.
The petition was signed by 11.613 people and sent (2005.11.01) to IBM.
The current status is that we have sent of the petition (as a letter
accompanied by a CD) to Sam Palmisano, CEO at IBM including copies to
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Jan Ekesiöö, Nicholas Donofino and Steve Mills.
The final count of valid signatures by the closure of the petition was
11.613! So the question here is if IBM corporation can ignore almost
12.000 people or if they at least will make a statement about the topic
since there has been a huge interest from the media as well. We will
keep you informed if we get any kind of information or reaction from IBM
Corp.
As of today, the 23 of December 2005, IBM does not sell OS/2 anymore,
with standard support ending on december 31st, 2006. But for the OS2
community this has been a fact since many years already. Due to this,
Serenity Systems International (USA) developed eComStation, an OEM
version of OS2. eComStation is distributed by Mensys BV (The
Netherlands). eComStation is still under very active development, a beta
version of eComStation 2.0 has just been released and a Demo CD can be
freely downloaded for evaluation. Serenity also initiated the
development of OpenOffice.org for OS/2 and eComStation to provide users
with a current and compatible office suite. From SciTech Software Inc
brought us the universal graphics driver SciTech SNAP Graphics driver
with support for the latest graphics hardware in one simple to install
package. From Netlabs.org there are several ongoing projects; the UniAud
- universal audio support for a wide range of audio chips, as well as
the GenMac Wrapper driver that acts as a wrapper for Windows NIC and
wifi drivers so one can use them on OS/2 and eComStation. InnoTek
(Germany) and Golden Code Development Corp (USA) have their respective
releases of J2SETM platform for OS2 and eComStation.
OS2 World.Com has recently initiated a Bounty System where corporations
and individuals can sponsor development projects, as well as make
suggestions of needed new projects. This project is organized together
with OS2 User Group in Sweden - which puts in time to handle the system,
and funds many of the bounties.
In short: development is far from dead when it comes to OS/2 and
eComStation. It would be great if we could achieve to get (parts of) the
OS/2 source code revealed and sincerely hope that this petition at least
will open up a dialog with IBM regarding this topic.
The entire OS2 World.Com staff would like to thank everyone that has
signed the petition
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
Kim Haverblad
Webmaster & Founder
OS2 World.Com - Sweden
More information can be found at following links:
- - OS2 World.Com - http://www.os2world.com
- - OS2 World Bounty System - http://www.os2world.com/bounties/
- - Serenity Systems International - http://www.serenity-systems.com
- - Mensys BV - http://wwww.mensys.nl
- - SciTech Software Inc - http://www.scitechsoft.com
- - Netlabs.org - http://www.netlabs.org
- - InnoTek - http://www.innotek.de
- - Golden Code Development Corp - http://www.goldencode.com
- - eComStation - http://www.eComStation.com
- - eComStation Demo CD request - http://www.eComStation.com/democd
- - Original letter to IBM -
http://www.os2world.com/petition/os2world_petition_2005.pdf
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