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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 133 declined, 26 accepted (159 total, 16.35% accepted)

IBM

Submission + - IBM refuses to liberate OS/2 (os2world.com) 1

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wikinerd
wikinerd writes: "Following an online petition in November 2007 by members of an OS/2 online community to open-source OS/2, IBM answered by sending a letter via FedEx making it clear that OS/2 is going to remain closed-source, citing business, technical, and legal problems. Previously there was an older petition in 2005 which attracted over 11 thousand signatures, and both petition letters to IBM Corp can be seen at OS2World.com library. The End of Support period for OS/2 passed by in December 2006, and the given IBM's response the future for OS/2 doesn't look bright, except if re-implementation projects such as the Voyager or osFree attract the necessary critical mass of operating system developers."
Businesses

Submission + - How to Get Rid of the Cubicle?

Submitted by
wikinerd
wikinerd writes: "How can we get rid of the widely hated cubicle and its ugly cousin, the stressing open-plan office? Some business owners and managers are too old, and having grown up in a different environment, cannot understand the advantages of teleworking, or even of private offices with Aerons. There are people in high positions who seem to think that stuffing a bunch of engineers into a noisy landscaped office is the best way to organise a company. It is not, and we all know it, but can we prove it? How can we communicate to them the fact that teleworking is good not only for the engineers, but also for the organisations?"

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