Date:  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:36:09 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Net: FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive

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From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM at DESPAMos2voice.org>

FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive
Thursday February 16, 2006 (06:00 PM GMT)
By: Bruce Byfield

http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/01/30/192226.shtml?tid=150&tid=132&tid=16

"After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from 
IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of 
GNU/Linux or FreeBSD have turned to free and open source software 
(FOSS) for political and philosophical freedom and software quality, 
the surviving OS/2 community has been turning to FOSS as a means of 
defending members' right to use the operating system of their choice. 
The result is a small but surprisingly diverse collection of projects 
that, to a GNU/Linux user, is a mixture of the familiar and exotic..."

-- 

  Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th,
http://www.warpstock.org
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