[openbeos] Re: BFS and encryption.


--- Helmar Rudolph <helmar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> [snip] ...you will surely piss off more 
> developers when BeOS  has gained more support than it has 
> now. Now it's at the bottom, so it's opportune to do it.
> Again, this is from a marketing angle, not a development 
> angle.
> 
> The problem is that if you do it later, it is _us_ who sit 
> there with the problem of annoyed developers. _us_ in 
> anyone wanting to market the [x]BeOS. If you don't have 
> such plans with OpenBeOS, then good luck. ;)
> [snip]

Be careful not to underestimate [*]BeOS developers.
They (I'd say we but I've never created anything that
anyone's seen besides myself :) are here for the cutting
edge OS/API, among many other reasons. I think they can
handle a little recompile later on (R2?) for their OS of
choice; especially if the recompile is getting them some
wicked cool new feature that no other OS has. B]

One of the primary strengths the project right now is focus.
Focus on recreating R5 as closely as possible.
Part of that focus is on attempting application-level binary
compatibility. It's currently one of the larger things binding
this project together.

I think that most people here agree that, for the time being,
having this focus is more important than trying to avoid
possible future developer discontent down the road.

---j


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