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Hello. ArcaOS has Qt4 and Qt5 ported. There is an version of OpenOffice available for it. It has ACPI, ACHI and USB support. It is not only a retro-computing novelty, there are people, like me, that still runs it everyday and believe in it. I invite you all to visit OS2World.com if you really want to see the community.

I think it is both. IBM may missed the point in a big way. They were an slow corporation to market an OS home product. The PC became a home product and IBM was not ready to be on that kind of circus.

But don't underestimate Microsoft. They went very hard to market Windows as home product and also as a server in corporations. But they also did some shady stuff. Read: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-IBMs-OS-2-project-lose-to-Micr...

And later with open source: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

That's why young people today, don't understand older guys from the 90's that hate Microsoft. Microsoft was really evil that decade.

Hello. What happened to Zortech ? Any chance that Zortech C++ for OS/2 can be open sourced ?

Yes and No.

There are actually developers that had given a lot of open source software to the platform (OS/2) without expecting nothing in return. But cloning OS/2 to turn it open source is a very long task and we don't have enough hands on the community.

But eComStation and ArcaOS uses IBM's binaries (OS/2 binaries), so to be a legal product an agreement and $$$ has to be given to IBM to be able to distribute a resell the binaries. So, it can not be a free product until some developers clone an open source replacement for the OS/2's binaries.

If you have doubts you can visit OS2World.com and ask on the forum.