Reviving OS/2's best in the Linux desktop

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 9, 2008 3:27 AM EDT
DesktopLinux.com; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Get over it. We're never going to see OS/2 open-sourced. If you want to run OS/2 today, the closest you're going to get is Serenity System's eComStation 2.0 RC4. But, it just might be possible for Linux desktop users to get one of OS/2's best features: SOM (System Object Model). IBM, I'm told by developers who should know, still has all of SOM's source code and it all belongs to IBM. It's because IBM doesn't have all the code for OS/2 and some of it belongs to Microsoft that IBM open-sourcing OS/2 has proven to be a futile hope.

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