FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Hmm...

["procton" <linalm-7@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Sounds a lot like you're volunteering to start the net_server effort. ;) 
> BONE has probably been the most anticipated update for R5, so a nice, 
>stable rewrite of the net_server will go a long way toward convincing 
>the community to hang it there.

If I had the knowledge and time, I would. :)
Currently I am a bit involved in bezilla, and my own IM... oh... and work.

>>I think this should work to keep BeOS alive, but you seem
>>to want to create a open-source version of BeOS, which
>>I think is not that nice of an idea. I have nothing against
>>creating another open-source OS, but I do not think we should
>>base that upon BeOS. BeOS is nice, but it is far from perfection.
>
>I have two thoughts on this:
>
>First, if BeOS were to be actively supported and updated by a commercial 
>entity (Be Inc., Palm, whoever), I would be the last person to join this 
>effort.  I don't really care *who* maintains the OS, just as long as 
>somebody does, because it's what I best like using.  Since no commercial 
>entity is going to be maintained a *desktop* version of the OS, it falls 
>to the community (and myself, by extension) to do the job.  I'm not 
>*really* all that interested in having "another open-source OS", I just 
>want to be able to use BeOS for as long as I want without feeling like 
>I'm using a dead and decaying piece of software.  I want the OS to be 
>updated, and I want the apps to be updated -- and at this point, I don't 
>see that happening unless the community takes over.  Which, basically, 
>means doing an open-source implementation.

Agree.

>Second, this is not "creating another open-source OS", at least not to 
>my way of thinking.  It's a version of BeOS that the community can 
>maintain all by itself, without any commercial vendor's interest 
>necessary.  That may sound like splitting hairs to you, but this effort 
>is intended to result in the BeOS, not some other XYZ OS -- and that 
>makes all the difference in the world to me.  I am a BeOS user and 
>developer; it gives my involvement in this industry purpose and meaning 
>(crazy as that sounds).  The situation as it stands is not going to let 
>me do that for any real length of time.  If I want to carry on, I really 
>don't have any choice but to reimplement the OS in a form that can and 
>will be updated in the foreseeable future.  It sure would be nice to 
>work with a bunch of like-minded folks to do the job, but I'm just crazy 
>enough to do it myself if I have to. ;)

If you are crazy enough, I will join you.

Regards

/Procton