2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
6:52 p.m.
On 2 December 2011 19:04, Jim Scheef <scheefj at netscape.net> wrote:
Sam,
I believe the IBM-Microsoft collaboration lasted thru 1.1. Not sure about
1.2 or 1.3. Version 2.0 and later were pure IBM, although any legacy code
from the earlier versions had a joint copyright.
AFAIK, all OS/2 1.x versions were joint products.
OS/2 2.x was IBM alone, but contained lots of MS code, so IBM could
not open-source it or anything.
Gee, that copyright should
have expired now - it been 20+ years...
Ahahahaha!
As an Alan Cox T-shirt I got free from him on Red Hat's UK Geek Day
back in the '90s says:
"US Patent Office: selling monopoly rights to common sense for 205 years."
(Or somewhere in that region.)
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