FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Afternoon, all

["Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 04:58:17 AM, "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>wrote:
>>We are now more than 50 users. I am impressed with the turnout from the 
>>community. Thanks.
>This is great. How many of them have already done kernel programming?

Don't know yet. At least a few.

>>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,
>This is very hard to decide.
>No one can guarantee that even if Palm now would promise to support and 
>continue BeOS that this will last forever.
>It might very well happen that they decide after a month (or 6 month, or after 
>a year) that BeOS isn't worth their money, and then we are in the same 
>situation 
>as today. This is the real problem with a commercial OS. You don't know what 
>will happen, and if Palm plays a game of time as Be did during the last year, 
>you will loose many BeOS users for sure during this time.

Sure. But on the other hand, it helps immensely with the amount of code we need 
to write, short term.

>> 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
>Any part of BeOS that get's open sourced will help, but would Palm really open 
>source parts of BeOS?

I don't know. I hope so.

>> (kernel, I think it is safe to say would remain closed). But I would live 
>> with that. Anybody object?
>See above. If we get parts of BeOS open sourced, it will be good. If Palm does 
>not open source, but rather promise that they will continue support of BeOS, 
>you are still lost. I personally don't expect that they will keep addicted to 
>BeOS during the next *years*!

We will have to see.

>>Also - I have a number of the short profiles that I have asked everyone for, 
>>but I am still missing some.
>We really need to find out if there a any people here who actually can code a 
>kernel and an OS.

Yes. There are some.

>regards
>Marcus 
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