[openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Allen Brunson wrote:

> > I think we should move OpenBFS from MIT to LGPL to make sure
> > Apple doesn't rip it off... (but maybe it's too late) :)
> 
> 
> You guys are being silly.  BFS was *Dominic's* idea, not yours.  The very
> idea that he or anybody else at Apple would even *look* at your code is
> absurd.  You overestimate yourselves by an order of magnitude.  Dominic
> could probably re-write BFS from scratch in a couple of weeks by himself,
> and it would be even better this time, since he knows what he did wrong the
> last time.

Take it easy. No one who actually *CODED* anything for OpenBFS is 
complaining (in fact, as I said, it would be cool if Apple used our code). 
Saying "You overestimate yourselves" sees like an unfair thing to say.

-Bruno

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