On behalf of the worldwide OS/2 and ArcaOS community

December 5, 2025

Arvind Krishna
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
International Business Machines Corporation
1 New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
United States of America

Subject: Request for broader commercial licensing or sale of the remaining OS/2 intellectual property

Dear Mr. Krishna,

I am writing as a long-time admirer of IBM’s technical legacy and on behalf of tens of thousands of active OS/2 users, developers, and enterprise customers who continue to run mission-critical systems on the original OS/2 platform and its direct descendant, ArcaOS.

Today I sent an open letter to Elon Musk (copy attached/enclosed) proposing the creation of “Warp Genesis” — a modern, fully supported, premium commercial desktop operating system built on the proven OS/2 foundation that IBM pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s. The letter has already been widely circulated within the OS/2, ArcaOS, and retro-computing communities and is receiving support.

I approached Mr. Musk first because he has publicly and repeatedly praised OS/2 Warp as “light-years ahead of Windows 95,” citing its true preemptive multitasking, real crash protection, and the fact that his company Zip2 ran for years on OS/2 servers “because they simply never went down.”

Yet the ultimate steward of this extraordinary technology remains IBM.

Arca Noae has already demonstrated that commercial licensing of the remaining IBM OS/2 intellectual property is both possible and practical. What is now needed is a broader, definitive agreement — one that only IBM can authorize — to release or license the trademarks, complete original source code, and associated patents under terms that enable a well-funded commercial partner to bring a modern OS/2-based desktop OS to the global market.

We therefore respectfully request that IBM consider one of the following paths:

1. Granting a comprehensive commercial license (building on the existing Arca Noae model but scaled for a major franchise) to a serious industry partner such as xAI, or another committed entity, or
2. Outright sale or long-term exclusive licensing of the remaining OS/2 trademarks and code base to such a partner, with fair compensation and continued support for legacy enterprise customers (and consumers.)

This is not about nostalgia. Banks, insurers, factories, and government agencies still spend millions annually keeping OS/2 and early Windows applications alive. Hundreds of millions of users — and billions in potential revenue — are waiting for an operating system that boots in seconds, never forces updates, contains no telemetry, and runs 1985–2005 software perfectly on today’s AMD and Intel hardware. The OS/2 architecture already does all of this in 2025.

IBM once built the finest desktop operating system the world has ever seen. The code, the expertise, and the market are all still here — larger and more desperate than ever.

We ask only that IBM allow history to be completed, this time on terms that put technical excellence and customer respect first.

The community and I stand ready to facilitate introductions between IBM’s licensing team and any serious prospective partner.

With utmost respect for IBM’s legacy and hope for its future,

Jason Page
On behalf of many in the worldwide OS/2 and ArcaOS community