[openbeos] Re: Driver proposal

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Vassilis Perantzakis wrote:
> > I have a proposal to make to the OpenBeOS team. Since the date for 
> > R1 is
> > at least 1 to 2 years into the future, if not more, I suggest that 
> > for a
> > couple of months for each year, the team allocates resources to the
> > creation of drivers for BeOS / OpenBeOS. This will help keep the 
> > current
> > state of BeOS to alive and not partially dead.
> You're making two assumptions here, that are not correct or at least 
> might
> prove wrong. The first is, that R1 will indeed still take more than 
> one
> year to be finished. Although some people keep repeating that we are 
> still
> several years away from our first release, I don't believe that.
> The second one is, that are a lot of driver writers among the 
> involved
> developers. Some are, but a part of those keeps working on drivers 
> anyway
> (like Marcus) or even do nothing but drivers (like the undercredited
> Thomas Kurschel).

BTW the undercredited Thomas is also working on our driver system (so 
not only drivers ;-)) :-)

> I for one want OBOS to be finished as soon as possible. If it would 
> still
> take a year, I rather want to have in a year instead of in a year and 
> two
> months with just a bit more drivers.

I second that!

Adios...
   Axel.

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