VNUNET reports that IBM recently declined to open source the OS/2 operating system (again). This is not a surprising development. If IBM leveraged OS/2 as a spin-out FOSS project, sustained by community developers, it may find limited value capture in providing complementary technologies and services. The operating system was never that popular, and IBM stopped support several years ago. Still, one must ask whether the Free Culture and FOSS movements are seething that consumer welfare and the freedom to tinker have been diminished because they cannot access the OS/2 code.