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.