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From: roderickkleinDESPAM{at}DESPAMxs4all.nl

This email was send out on behalf of Silvan Scherrer from Bitwiseworks GmbH.  


In the current situation and in the remaining OS/2 market, the 2 major players are:  

 * ArcaNoae LLC (in short "AN")
 o they put things together, develop drivers and they
 are entitled to sell ArcaOS direct or via resellers.
 * bww bitwise works GmbH (in short "bitwise")
 o creates software to make ArcaOS usable. "Bitwise" develops and
 maintains a default toolchain to create software for
 all flavorsof OS/2 (plain OS/2 4.5, eComStation 1.x and
 2.x and ArcaOS 5.x).
 o "Bitwise" main emphasis is on providing open source
 software by porting various libraries, toolkits and
 programs. The biggestpart found at the available RPM Wiki
 http://trac.netlabs.org/rpm/wiki/AvailableRPM> is work of
 "bitwise".
 o In addition "bitwise" is working on InJoy Firewall, a closed
 source project providing security to OS/2.  

All money in "bitwise" is used to pay the developer costs for bigger
projects (AOO, Java, Qt and Firefox). Our most notable developers are
Dmitry Kuminov and Yuri Dario. Herwig Bauernfeind and most notably
Silvan Scherrer work more or less for free.  

Recently income for development projects like Firefox, which we did
partialy for "AN" and other consultancy projects has dropped.
Since then we don't have a flowing source of income and this is one of the
reasons you see more sponsorship campaigns from different sources, where
the campaigns from OS/2 VOICE are most probably the most known ones. We
know we have been too silent during the last couple of years, but we
invested most of the time in development.  

"Bitwise" main goal is to provide as much software as possible
for free, but we cannot do so without the help of the community. We need as
many sponsors as possible or sales through our webshop - as to say
lightely: "Free software does not grow on trees".  

Overall the best way to support "bitwise" and the open source idea on
OS/2 is to become a sponsor and buy development units or other articles
(including ArcaOS) in our webshop https://www.bitwiseworks.com/shop.
If you buy, as example, ArcaOS in our webshop, a part of the sale stays in
"bitwise", the rest goes to "AN".  

A completely different way to support us, is our channel at Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/bwwbitwiseworks>. Supporters on patreon will
receive little special gimmicks from time to time, not available otherwise.  

OS/2 is, and has always been our passion! Help us to create more and
better software for it for a longer period of time!  

-- freundliche Grüsse / kind regards
Silvan Scherrer  

/Silvan Scherrer
AROA Informatik AG
Tel. +41 71 243 55 77
Fax +41 71 243 55 70
http://www.aroa.ch http://www.aroa.ch> /
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