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Article #105Re: A sad day for IT
From: Victor Bien
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:56
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:56
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B�rgen Stra�� wrote: > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/11/1510242.shtml?tid=136 > > http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_902-274 > > Many posters at comp.os.os2.misc say that "withdrawal" of the OS/2 from the market down not mean the end of "support". IBM will still support OS/2 till 31 Dec 2006 or is it 2004. Between 2004 & 2006 there will still be some kind of support. Several years ago IBM announced that OS/2 would be supported for another 7 years. I noticed someone said a few days ago that some of the source code has been quietly placed somewhere for public access, but I can't find it again. There is a limit what IBM can release because of copyright agreements with M$. If that is confirmed OS/2 may metamorphose like Netscape to Mozilla or become another "linux". Certainly there's a lot of talented people out there who can do things with it. Their names suggest they mainly come from Germany & Russia.
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