On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 22:57 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> o IBM might have legal entanglements with contractors
I'm thinking that IBM might have an entanglement with Serenity, which
remarkets and enhances OS/2 as "eComStation". See:
http://www.ecomstation.com/
Also: the Windows code would likely have to be stripped out.
> o How many Linucians would be impelled, even by open source, to
> convert to OS/2?
Not this one. I'd have to give up ~way~ too much. But the Workplace
Shell was an interesting hack, and was extensible in useful ways by
Stardock and others.
And speaking of Stardock, Brad Wardell has an interesting retrospective
on the rise-and-fall of his OS/2 business. There's even some advice
that can be taken to heart by some of us in the MVS community. See:
http://www.stardock.com/stardock/articles/article_sdos2.html
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David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
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