OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System 293
Grayskull writes "The OS/2 and eComStation community are trying to get open source software ported to that platform by opening bounties and allowing people to chip in with prize money. Currently the most important open bounties are Java 6 port, Icon routines in OS/2, VirtualBox port, Extend multimedia and OpenWengo ports."
Bounties? (Score:5, Funny)
Not even Boba Fett would do /that/ job for /that/ bounty.
Team OS/2! (Score:5, Funny)
OS/2! Named after the number of users remaining!
Truly hopeless (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, this is like getting grandma a boobjob so maybe she can score a young IT guy with money.
Donate it to the community or give it up!
What! (Score:4, Funny)
Someone is still using OS/2? Perhaps there should also be bounties for porting software to Win 95 & NT 4.0 and Linux kernel v1.0...
Re:Team OS/2! (Score:1, Funny)
I think OS/2 suffered from a warp core breach.
Re:Truly hopeless (Score:5, Funny)
They can't open source it. It's encumbered.
Are we still talking about OS/2 or his grandmother?
Not very bountiful (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Truly hopeless (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you, I'm going to have to scrub my brain with bleach now.
Re:What! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I can see a huge bright future for ATMs running Java and GIMP and Firefox and Chrome.
Yes, but no virus or trojans (Score:3, Funny)
I run OS/2 as my primary desktop. I'm safe from viruii as there is none for it.
There is some security through obscurity.
Re:Open source the OS (Score:1, Funny)
The OS in encumbered by crap from Microsoft and COUNTLESS other contributors.
Oh, a stew?
Re:I'm not sure that this is the place for bountie (Score:2, Funny)
...but OS/2 doesn't have anything like the charisma or fanbase, and it is too young and modern to appeal heavily on nostalgic grounds(unlike, say, C64).
Ah, you should have seen the 90s! There were OS/2 fanboys that made the Apple guys look like sissy boys. They were rabid. Just say, "OS/2 is what, DOS 5.0?"
Ooooo Weeee! It would have been better to call their mother a whore!
Re:Not very bountiful (Score:3, Funny)
This just in, OS/2 users drive Ford Pintos (Score:3, Funny)
This will be my next project (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What does OS/2 offer today? (Score:3, Funny)
A few bounties can fix that right up.
Car analog (Score:2, Funny)
I am willing to pay $150 for alloy wheels for my Ford Model T, anybody interested?
Re:Team OS/2! (Score:2, Funny)
I think OS/2 suffered from a warp core breach.
And how!
Just after they were caught by the Borg leader Gerstner and resistance was futile. :)
Couldn't resist!
Take care.
Please, God, let it DIE! (Score:2, Funny)
OS/2 was a horse. More like a sway-backed nag.
It died.
More than 10 years ago.
???
There is NO profit!
Seriously - Stop beating this dead horse!
Re:Not very bountiful (Score:1, Funny)
They watched that infomerical about how for just $30 a port you can feed a homeless OS/2 programmer for a day or two. ;)
Re:OS/Who? (Score:0, Funny)
That Unix OS or whatever is nearly 40 years old. THAT must be an extremely obsolete OS.
Community? (Score:4, Funny)
And I thought that Trekkies were nerdy.
Re:Open source the OS (Score:3, Funny)
That's right. If it isn't a UNIX-based or Windows-based OS, it doesn't deserve to live regardless of what it might have contributed to history or what functional/technical merit it might have for future generations. POSIX and Redmond have all of the computing answers, and are the only technologies that were ever worth anything...