[openbeos] Re: Haiku - FreeDesktop.org cooperation proposal

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:15 AM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > From: Haiku - http://www.haiku-os.org/about
> >  To: FreeDesktop.org
> >
> >  GNU/Linux has gained quite some momentum on the desktop, with the 
> > help
> >  of Gnome and KDE environments, and the FreeDesktop.org project.
> >  ...
> >  However we believe we can cooperate on several points:
> >
> >  * Haiku can certainly adhere to some freedesktop.org standards 
> > where it
> >  is relevant.
> >
> >  For example, we currently have our own mime database, inherited 
> > from
> >  BeOS, but it is concievable to reuse existing freedesktop.org 
> > provided
> >  types in some way, and contribute some new types.
> >
> 
> Ars technica had an interesting article on file types on the mac os x
> http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/11
> here's the problem: maybe Haiku may one day decide that something 
> like
> the UTI system is better than the mime approach (especially for those
> cases where mime is extended). If we are already committed to linux
> standards it would be much harder to switch to a different system

This topic was already brought up last year.
Anyway, following a standard at t doesn't mean we can't use something 
better at t+Nyears.
We won't sign any licence contract :)

François.

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