From CIO.com
A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM—again—to release the operating system’s source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so… but if it can. Not, I expect, that IBM will actually say this out loud.
This is definitely a good thing and I sincerely hope, IBM can really pull this off . But I see the following challenges that IBM has:
While in talk with a senior executive at IBM, he said that OS/2 was written along with Microsoft, and that could face some legal hurdles.
Also after SCO sued IBM for putting code in Linux, the elephant is wounded. Well not exactly wounded but bruised 🙂 and they may not want to risk another litigation.
And how relevant will it be today? When Linux is gaining so much momentum on the Desktop.