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ivan:
So Eugene, what are YOU going to do about it?

Doug Bissett:
I don't even understand what Eugene is babbling on about. "OS/2 artefacts" are what they are.

1) Of course. What else do you expect? Christmas bows?
2) Boxes are not ugly. Why would they attract attention? IBM didn't build, and market, OS/2 to be pretty.
3) ??? Why would there be stories?
4) ??? Now what do you want? Free hardware?
5) ??? Activists? Pussey Riot perhaps?
6) OS/2 is old. The items are described as "duplicate and unneeded items from OS/2 Museum West". Museums usually contain things that are OLD.

I expect that Neil is doing as he says, and wanting the items to go to a new museum, or to somebody who can use them, rather than to the garbage can.

Martin Iturbide:
If Eugene will really like to "add up" to the community he should think on open sourcing his eCo Software (like eCo Software Runtime) instead of thinking on making money by selling licenses, this are not the 90's and this is not "Google Play Marketplace" or "Apple's App Store" . And also do not take BSD licensed software and turn it close source (it is legal but it does not gives you a good "open source citizen" reputation)

I think that eCo Software can make more money by creating open source projects and requesting donations from the community like Silvan (Bitwise works) is doing. Eugene has some very sharp WPS/PM developers on the backend and it will be great if eCo Software starts to "add up" to the open source community.

But the community will not pay for more close source software, we don't want to be dumped just like happened before with IBM, and open source software help us to mitigate that risk.

This is my personal opinion, but it is also very frustrating that Eugene can not clearly express himself in English, when he write something I don't understand like the 80% of what he means.

Regards.
Martin

Neil Waldhauer:
I agree with most of what Eugene is saying.  eBay has nice store features, and I'm not using them. Can the OS/2 market support an eBay store with enough business to make it worth it?

This is just a list of the OS/2 museum excess items on eBay.
http://search.ebay.com/?sass=neilwaldhauer&ht=-1

If buyers do not step forward, I will eventually recycle the items.

ff4:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on December 26, 2013, 04:24:34 am ---
I think that eCo Software can make more money by creating open source projects and requesting donations from the community like Silvan (Bitwise works) is doing. Eugene has some very sharp WPS/PM developers on the backend and it will be great if eCo Software starts to "add up" to the open source community.

But the community will not pay for more close source software, we don't want to be dumped just like happened before with IBM, and open source software help us to mitigate that risk.


--- End quote ---

Fully agreed. There are very limited development resources to build such software, to create a close source component makes no sense today. It doesn"t mean to get no money for the work.  Its possible that somebody still will pay the software when its fully functional and released to public, then its being open sourced for the future. Like this we could have a general pm open file dialog and not the 100th implementation of the same component.

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