Steve Mccrystal wrote in a message to Frits Spieker:

 SM> According to an IBM official attending Warp Expo West, no
 SM> meeting took place yesterday on the future status of OS/2.
 SM> He should know, he sits on the committee itself. On top of
 SM> this he said IBM has ruled no third party entity out of the
 SM> running to offer a third party release of Warp 5. [end
 SM> quote]

If I were to pick a 3rd party to release WARP, it would not be Wardell, thats
for sure.  I would go for Rex Conn, of 4DOS fame, he knows his stuff.  My
other choice would be a guy that posts in here all the time, but I won't
mention his name.  Brad Wardell would not be on my list, not even at the
bottom.

If IBM were serious about not wanting to spend time or money on OS/2 for the
consumer market, they could easily give away the code to someone and retain
license for thier own use.  This would [have] kill[ed] MS I think, but I think 
IBM has no intention of ever hurting MS, so none of this [has] will happen.

                                              Jack 
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