[haiku-development] Re: To __BEOS__ or not to __BEOS__?

  • From: <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 05:00:35 +0200

Guys,

Luposian said:

> Remember what it was like for us, when Be, Inc. went from [whatever] to
> ELF (I think that's what it was called)?  It broke stuff.  Sometimes
> pretty devastatingly.  But we got over it, knowing the reference
> standard of a BeOS user was always... sacrifice the past to improve the
> future!  That is what has always made BeOS so much better than other
> OS's.  The willingness to kick cruft behind and forge ahead with new
> and better.  It hurt, but it always made BeOS better... and better...
> and better.

Oh my god!

All you guys said it well, but it's Luposian who put his finger where it hurt 
the most on my arguments for keeping __BEOS__: he's right, and by losing BeOS 
way of doing I'm getting too much conservative.
Getting old is no fun ;-)

Philippe.



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