Sab, you somehow again managed to disappoint me althouhg I was hoping for an improvement giving you starting this thread... phew... ok:
You say
The thing is; there is no point in saying:
I think that if IBM would open-source the kernel
since it should be quite known...
You don't need to tell me. I have signed more than 1 petition to open-source it since the 1990s.
When I said "if IBM would" it was meant *hypothetically*, ... like in "IF", you know?
That's why I wrote "IF" by the way.
I'll repeat more detailed, perhaps there was some noise:
Even if IBM would
ever open-source the OS/2-kernel (did you get the hypothetical part?) it would not make any difference:
The skills needed to "upgrade" a 32bit-kernel to 64bit are at least(!) the same like those needed to create a 64bit-kernel from scratch. Moreover,
even IF we had a workarounded-64-bit-kernel - what would we do with it? Because at that moment, we would find ourselves at ground zero again: No working drivers, no working software, no WPS... everything would need to be put hands-on again. Once we're done, there's a 128bit-kernel by M$ and Linux and even my mobile phone would be better than this new OS in all regards.
So, for heavens sake: Let the geeks do voyager, let them select the microkernel to go along with it and there you go. And if there is something you need, request, want: Put up a bounty
and bring the bucks in. You told me wonderful things about your experience in funding international stuff - ok, but how many bounties did
you sponsor HERE?
Regards
Thomas