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[openbeos] Re: Afternoon, all

  • From: "Ithamar R. Adema" <ithamar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:14:03 +0200
I for one wouldn't object to working on code being opened by Palm ;-) Would 
save us quite some time and trouble ;-)

Regards,

Ithamar.

At 04:58 19-8-2001 -0400, you wrote:

<snip>
>I have a thought that I would like to float. How many of us would be 
>willing to support Palm, ASSUMING that they wanted to continue BeOS 
>support, by forgoing our dreams of a fresh, new, completely open source 
>BeOS, instead, maybe, working on some piece of BeOS that was open sourced 
>like OT/OD? This is not something that they have suggested, but something 
>that I have suggested. It would reduce the load on the engineers there, 
>help us to get the OS changes/fixes/enhancements that we need, and bring 
>us closer to a perfect OS. This seems to me to be a viable, reasonable 
>solution. I think that it would get us the best bang for our buck, time 
>and effort wise. It would be a disappointment to those (me, for instance) 
>who wanted to work on a particular portion that wouldn't be opened 
>(kernel, I think it is safe to say would remain closed). But I would live 
>with that. Anybody object?


><snip>

Ithamar R. Adema
Information Engineering Associates Ltd
http://www.ieadev.com







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