In a message dated 10-03-99, Jack Stein said to Roy J. Tellason:


JS>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.

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

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

JS>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.  

JS>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. 

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


JS>                                              Jack 
JS>

Stardock just tried that as of the 18th of September. IBM said NO quite
simply.
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