Date:  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:08:27 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Net: OS2 World: Petition making OS/2 Open Source

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From: kimhDESPAM at DESPAMos2world.com 

It is known that OS/2 isn't well supported by companies that make software
or by individual developers, and OS/2 faces a high possibility of being
replaced from the market. That's why we are making this petition to IBM so
the OS/2 Technology can be freely distributed and developed around the
world. We understand that making OS/2 Open source will be beneficial for
the IBM customers knowing also the problems that IBM can face with the
private source code but also offering a solution with the OS/2 Developer
community.

Making OS/2 Open Source will benefit all IBM customers that had invested
on this OS. Customer that are willing to continue using OS/2 will get the
benefit to have an open OS that will be continuos developed by individual
developers and/or software companies, their ownership fees will decrease
and they will have the security to have use an OS that is going to stay
for a longer time in the market (following the Linux example). Also
customer that are willing to migrate to other platforms will find
beneficial to have OS/2 open source, with that it will be easier to
migrate their programs or make an OS/2 interpreter or emulator for the
transition.

We know that IBM faces a problem of making OS/2 Open Source because of the
private source from third companies. What we ask to IBM is to release as
much of the source that can be possible and list the OS/2 components that
need an Open Source replacement. With a list of components that need to be
replaced companies interested on OS/2 or individual developers can create
Open Source software to fill this "holes" in the OS.

IBM will also find beneficial the open source of OS/2. The OS/2 Community
can freely develop Open Source software just like it had been happening to
Linux. IBM can take advantage of this and have less expenses on the
mantaince, and getting improvements for developers around the world.

Conclusions

IBM is preaching and supporting on this days the use of open standards and
says that the benefits of Open Source software are many. IBM understand
that open source software are directly beneficial to the customers, that's
why IBM is supporting a 110% Linux.

For either customer that want to keep OS/2 and from those who are thinking
to migrate from it, making OS/2 Open Source will be a fine strategy.

We also have a OS/2 community of developers that had made several open
source software for OS/2 and they are also willing to stay in this
platforms.

To get the biggest impact of this petition we kindly ask you to forward
this information to news pappers, magazines and other sites on the
internet that might have the interest of this petition (or at least has
the interest of posting the an article about this petition).

The petition can be found at following url:
 http://www.os2world.com/petition/

Kim Haverblad, OS2 World Sweden
Martin Iturbide, OS2 World Ecuador
Tom Lee Mullins, OS2 World USA

Url:  http://www.os2world.com/petition/

From: Kim Haverblad (kimhDESPAM at DESPAMos2world.com)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php

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