![]() ![]() If SSI could negotiate a much less expensive license from IBM, they could charge far less, but so far that hasn’t happened. The cost of eCS as a product is directly related to the cost of an OS/2 client license that IBM still imposes on Serenity Systems for each copy of eCS sold. Informed speculation over the years has been that the main reasons for them not releasing the code relate to third-party IP in said code, meaning IBM couldn’t (legally) release it even if it wanted to, at least without getting permission from those other parties. IBM is choosing to not release the code for the kernel and other key elements. ![]() As has been mentioned several times before, eComStation is only a reseller of a value-added version of the OS/2 operating system - IBM owns the rights to all of the key OS/2 code (WPS, kernel, filesystems, etc) as well as all of the rights to license and release it.
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