Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> You heard of LINUX right?  AT&T owned that, lock stock and 
 JS> barrel, 

 RJT> No.  AT&T owned _unix_,  which is not at all the same thing.

Yes, simple brain fart there Roy, I thought UNIX and typed LINUX.

 JS> yet, Linus managed to clone the damn thing, didn't he?

Obviously I wasn't trying to say Linus cloned Linux:-)

 RJT> Yeah he did.  Which is why I don't see a problem with the
 RJT> same thing happening with OS/2.  

That was my intended point, of course.

 RJT> All it needs is enough technically competent people to put the 
 RJT> effort in.  Whether _that_ will happen is another question 
 RJT> entirely,  though. 

Probably won't happen, but you never know.  I was thinking, if IBM really
didn't wish to sell and maintain OS/2 for the consumer, they could license a
third party, keep a legal interest somehow, and watch MS get knocked on their
ass.  When/if they do that, or release the code to the public domain, then
I'll believe they are not pissing in MS's pocket.


                                              Jack 
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