What I'd like to see happen is IBM divest themselves of OS/2 by selling it to Serenity Systems.
The problems I see for that happening though are major:
- Some code is still licensed from MS
- At the last time I checked, IBM still relies on OS/2 for many of it's mainframe/mini lines [embedded OS to control the system - almost like a system BIOS... for instance the Z Series used to (and still may) use it in such a fashion]
I dont know how we as a group (OS/2 users, developers, distributors) could get around those issues short of re-writing OS/2... with the numerous inherent problems related to that (such as recreating the kernel and it's fantastic CPU, thread and process scheduling techniques - and duplicating the APIs, WPS, REXX subsystems, etc).
It may not be so much of a problem if IBM could at least lower their costs to Serenity, and provide more technical information (or source) to certain sections that they wholly have the rights to.
Either way, at least Serenity is making some pretty big steps...