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I don't know why this is a surprise over ten years after IBM conceded the desktop market to MS.  :'(
They gave Serenity Systems the GreenLight for eComStation. We, as a community should just continue to support that  8). OS/2 has too much licensed code in it. Yeah, eCS is not "OS/2 Warp 4.52" (that's the last official Passport Adavantage/Software Choice version that I have anyway  :) ), but it's still OS/2, and it's available and supported.

I think we should stop asking/petitioning that OS/2 being open sourced and instead just support eCS with retail applications and continue support it's development and be happy with it. Likewise continue support those developers that still do make applications for OS/2 Warp 4.52. OS/2, because of it's development history (at least by my understanding), won't ever be open-sourced.

If I eat my words later, fine.

Paul