[openbeos] Re: [Glasselevator-talk] Re: Glasselevator-talk digest, Vol 1 #3 - 3 msgs (themes and other apps)...

  • From: David Sowsy <dsowsy@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:53:22 -0500 (EST)

> I have to disagre with you David. And Ithamar's missing the point too.
> 
> Deej, is right. We cannot control alternate or "rogue" version from 
> appearing. Anyone, absolutely anyone can checkout our entire source 
> tree at any time. They can then proceed to make changes from minor to 
> major, recompile, then redistribute it as an another OS. Our license 
> does not prohibit this.

You guys are all missing the point. We have control over what we
do. What anyone else does with our released code is a non-issue. Either
they make code they want to roll in with ours or they don't. We control
what goes back in, however.

> All we can do is promote an "official" version and a set of standards 
> for it. If we do it right, no one would want an alternate version. Of 
> course, this is all hypothetical talk at the moment, because we are a 
> long way away from having a source tree for a complete OS. But when we 
> do -- be prepared -- rip-offs will appear as sure as the sun rises.

Correct, they will be like weeds, and if they aren't major differences
they will not gain momentum.

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