>>Yes, let's. I think we should look into aquiring/merging with the >>openbeos.sourceforge.net space and seeding the source tree with Bruno G. >Yes, we should. I already send an email to Vootele Aer, asking him to join this >list, or to delete his sourceforge project if he is no longer interested. Heh. That makes two of us. >>Albuquerque and Nathan Whitehorn's Mail Daemon Replacement, if they're >>willing. That'd be one server down, and a bunch more plus a kernel to >>go. ;) >I don't think that this is a problem, since the source is available. >But will we get Bruno G. Albuquerque and Nathan Whitehorn ? I certainly hope so! >>If we can firmly establish the project as a true replacement for R5 with >>a future ahead of it, we can probably coax the community to move to gcc >>3.x. If nothing else, we can do what Be wouldn't do and version the >Perhaps. But there is a risk. Keeping BeOS binary compatibitity might be better. Yes, it is. Those other things are something to evaluate when we're further along. >>Strike while the iron is hot and all that. =) >Yes. If we need two years, probably most current BeOS users will be >gone forever, and we will have a hard time getting new ones. There's really no point otherwise. I'm hoping that an active project which is showing consistent progress will keep folks hanging in there. >>I think we're talking about basically reimplementing the OS, so this is >>probably a given. If nothing else, this architecture is definitely one >>of the cooler aspects of BeOS. >Yes, agreed! Depending on the number of people the project attracts, the modularity will make for easy division of labor. I'm not exactly a kernel engineer, but I'm pretty confident I can handle working on anything else in the system. Although, I *have* wanted to get into kernel work ... ;) >I'm not a fan of the GPL either. My concern is: > >If we have our kernel, based on an other open source license, will >it be possible to still use GPL drivers and port them? Judging from recent discussions on the Be lists and my own reading of the license, I think this is allowable. There are certainly a number of GPL'd drivers which have been ported to Windows and BeOS in the past without issue. e Data is not information, and information is not knowledge: knowledge is not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom. - Philip Adams