Hi Sigurd
I was reading the os2.org threads but the translation with google kind of sucks (and I'm so lazy to read all the threads).
What I had read for the moment seems good ideas for the short term, like supporting new hardware, ACPI, AHCI, etc.
But thinking in the long term I think there should also be an strategy to open source OS/2 to remove any kind of future depency from IBM or Serenity. Sure, IBM will not open source it, but there is the idea to create an open source clone of it. I really envy how
Haiku OS had open source BeOS and they now are offering some Virtual Machines to download the OS, sure it is not 100% usable/compatible yet, but at least they have the base to maintain BeOS in the future.
I really think we need to support the
OSFree project and
Voyager, think in the long term.
In the short term any kind of idea to get founding for hardware support and libraries like QT, GTK, SWT, JAVA ported will be great. But I really think that any new development should be open source, otherwise every slosed software development has the risk to became ABANDONWARE some day.
Martin