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Breaking OS/2 news, new OS/2 company! New OS/2?
guzzi:
I just noticed this. Probably a pre-announcement, waiting for the officail publication:
http://pastebin.com/TCRGEkX0
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Dear Fellow OS/2 Users...
My name is Lewis Rosenthal. Some of you may already be familiar with me as
the maintainer of several OS/2 and eCS mailing lists, the web host for
VOICE, and as the treasurer of Warpstock Corporation, the advocacy
organization which holds the annual OS/2 and eCS conference in North America.
Our community has been relatively quiet over the past year or so, in terms
of new OS/2 products and eCS releases. Late last year, I began to think
about the future of OS/2 as a platform, knowing that in the background, a
considerable amount of work was being done to maintain, update, and support
eCS, with little made available to the audience.
I began actively seeking investors for a new company with a new vision for
OS/2. To my delight, I have been able to assemble a group of such
like-minded people, and as I write this, we are forming this new company.
Part of the philosophy of the new entity will be to maintain strong ties to
the user community through the remaining organizations we have, and to
cultivate long term relationships with cooperative developers and vendors to
provide what we think is a more unified and organized face for our platform
of choice. Call this "branding and packaging" if you will.
While the products offered by the new company as packaged will be fee-based,
as far as we are able, code will be GPL (or GPL-compatible).
In the coming weeks, look for further announcements, a new website, public
forums and mailing lists, and soon after, a working web shop.
Martin Iturbide:
I haven't found any source about it.
I really hope that this turn to be truth but for the moment is just a rumor.
Regards
Dave Yeo:
Lewis announced it on the ecs-tech mailing list. There are other things happening that agree with it as well but it is not for me to announce what others are doing. There should be more announcements.
Martin Iturbide:
Good. Thanks for sharing the source.
It was announced on May 19 on the eCS-Technical Yahoo Group. I wish Lewis the best of luck with this endeavor and I'm willing to help on whatever it is on my hands to promote his OS2-eCS open source software projects !!!
This are very exciting news, but we also need and collaborate to this initiatives.
Lewis Rosenthal:
Sorry for the late follow-up, here, and thanks for starting this thread!
Indeed, there are many things happening behind the scenes right now; too many to list, and lots of new and exciting stuff coming.
Right now, the best help we can get is for people to spread the word, particularly outside the normal OS/2 and eCS channels, perhaps to disgruntled/disenfranchised Windows users, who now understand the feeling of betrayal we all had when IBM decided to throw in the towel. I've had several clients of mine enter into serious discussions concerning what to do about the XP EOL situation, realizing that Windows 8.x on the PC is no joy.
Thanks again, and I'll do my best to stop by and post more often!
Cheers/2
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