FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Haiku vs Haiku-OS [was: Re: Ruby+GTK2 for Haiku?]

["Jackson, Anthony" <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew McCall
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> On 16/02/07, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > append "oh ess" and 
> > the geekiness factor ramps up by a few orders of magnitude.
> 
> Not that my opinion is worth much, but I totally agree with you.

Oi, I'm proud of my geekyness! :) But I'll refrain from appending "OS"
in the future on the grounds that no-one says "Windows-OS" despite it
being named after a popular mechanism for keeping weather out of houses.

> What the owner of Haiku.org is doing is perfectly legal and 
> he has a right to do it, I don't really agree with it, but 
> thats another issues.  Would it not be easier contacting the 
> owner and explaining the situation and asking if we could buy 
> it for a nominal fee, and/or putting one of those "dead-bolt" 
> things on so as soon as the domain expires we grab it?

Even if they fail to renew, the domain goes on hold for a while, so
snatching it away is quite unlikely.

A game I do development on has a .com squatted on by an advertiser (it's
a semi-unusual name, so I don't think anyone else would want it).  I
once approached the owner without indicating that I was in any way
related to the game of the same name, and casually mentioned that I
liked it and noticed it was up for sale.  He wanted $4500 for it.  Given
that Haiku is orders of magnitude more popular than this game, I expect
the owner would want orders of magnitude more.

Besides, I don't think there is anything wrong with haiku-os.org, it
describes what it is. :)

Tony

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