Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:03:42 -0400 From: Subject: [VOICENWS] General: OS/2 in 2018 - 2 companies and the community ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: roderickkleinDESPAM at DESPAMxs4all.nl This email was send out on behalf of Silvan Scherrer from Bitwiseworks GmbH. In the current situation and in the remaining OS/2 market, the 2 major players are: * ArcaNoae LLC (in short "AN") o they put things together, develop drivers and they are entitled to sell ArcaOS direct or via resellers. * bww bitwise works GmbH (in short "bitwise") o creates software to make ArcaOS usable. "Bitwise" develops and maintains a default toolchain to create software for all flavorsof OS/2 (plain OS/2 4.5, eComStation 1.x and 2.x and ArcaOS 5.x). o "Bitwise" main emphasis is on providing open source software by porting various libraries, toolkits and programs. The biggestpart found at the available RPM Wiki http://trac dot netlabs dot org/rpm/wiki/AvailableRPM> is work of "bitwise". o In addition "bitwise" is working on InJoy Firewall, a closed source project providing security to OS/2. All money in "bitwise" is used to pay the developer costs for bigger projects (AOO, Java, Qt and Firefox). Our most notable developers are Dmitry Kuminov and Yuri Dario. Herwig Bauernfeind and most notably Silvan Scherrer work more or less for free. Recently income for development projects like Firefox, which we did partialy for "AN" and other consultancy projects has dropped. Since then we don't have a flowing source of income and this is one of the reasons you see more sponsorship campaigns from different sources, where the campaigns from OS/2 VOICE are most probably the most known ones. We know we have been too silent during the last couple of years, but we invested most of the time in development. "Bitwise" main goal is to provide as much software as possible for free, but we cannot do so without the help of the community. We need as many sponsors as possible or sales through our webshop - as to say lightely: "Free software does not grow on trees". Overall the best way to support "bitwise" and the open source idea on OS/2 is to become a sponsor and buy development units or other articles (including ArcaOS) in our webshop https://www.bitwiseworks dot com/shop. If you buy, as example, ArcaOS in our webshop, a part of the sale stays in "bitwise", the rest goes to "AN". A completely different way to support us, is our channel at Patreon https://www.patreon dot com/bwwbitwiseworks>. Supporters on patreon will receive little special gimmicks from time to time, not available otherwise. OS/2 is, and has always been our passion! Help us to create more and better software for it for a longer period of time! -- freundliche Grüsse / kind regards Silvan Scherrer /Silvan Scherrer AROA Informatik AG Tel. +41 71 243 55 77 Fax +41 71 243 55 70 http://www.aroa.ch http://www.aroa.ch> / -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice dot org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice dot org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice dot org unsubscribe news end ]