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- From: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: OS/2 AS AN OPEN SYSTEM- B
- Message-ID: <4171.18.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:26:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)
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- assela@marcus.its.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin) writes:
-
- > I was thinking recently about the future of the PC marketplace, and
- > thought of an interesting idea. If IBM were to make OS/2 an open
- > system (i.e. all source freely available or licenseable at a
- > reasonable rate), I believe its market share for desktop operating
- > systems would increase dramatically. Just think: a windowing
- > system where you don't have to guess what the documentation means
- > on a certain point (programming Windows is as much reading the book
- > as experimenting to figure out what it means). This advantage is
- > already available in X, but this would be the first time it'd be
- > available for a mainstream desktop OS. And if you have some
- > obscure bug that seems to be caused by a strange interaction, you
- > could not only look at the source, but also trace right down into
- > OS/2 at a source level! My question to the net is what do you see
- > as the advantages and disadvantages of an approach like this. How
- > would it impact OS/2 sales? How would it impact the programming
- > community? Is such a system feasible? Any thoughts?
-
- A bad idea in my opinion, since UNIX demonstrates that when source
- code is released, chaos results. 100 dialects of OS/2? No thanks!
-
- And since when is UNIX not a "mainstream desktop OS"?! ;-)
-
- Best regards,
- John
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