| First Call: Open Sourcing OS/2 Software Campaign |
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Posted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 27 April 2004
I'm starting a campaign to open source as much of OS/2 abandoware as we can, everybody is welcome to help out asking their favorite tools developers to open the source code! This is something I wanted to start some time ago. There is many OS/2 software around the Internet that had been abandon by its authors. Many software are great products that are still used by many OS/2 users and software that deserves to have further enhancements. The idea will be in a polite way to ask the developers of this abandon OS/2 software to release the source code of it. Many of they don't code anymore under OS/2 and don't care anymore about it and will have no problem releasing the source code. The benefits of open sourcing their code will be that other OS/2 developers can learn from the code and possible continue their projects. I had a good experience asking developers to open source their software. I started some years ago the OS/2 gaming site and I also tried to contact the OS/2 abandoned games developers. Much of the developers don't care anymore about the game and gave me freely the source code for their games and let me choose to license to be distribute with them. (You can check out the open sourced OS/2 games here www.os2world.com/games/html/opensource.html). So if you want to help me on this campaign, once you find a OS/2 abandoware program the steps will be:
Wish you luck. Martin Iturbide There are some comments to this article in the old forum and it can be found here - but for new comments, please use the new comment feature. (2) Comments |
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