I think I speak for the bulk of those on the openBe list when I say that we're not trying to hurt your effort, but by sitting and waiting for results, we will waste alot of time that we could get a lot of work done. As it is, we're only politicking right now. Regardless, I'm fairly sure if Palm listens to you, well over 90% of those working on openBe will come running to jump in on the real thing. I don't think you have to worry too much about a fragmenting community -- we all know where our alleigences are. -Justin > > I want you to state: "OpenBeOS is in support of BeUnited's > initiative to obtain the licence to the BeOS from Palm, and is > willing to make itself available for development projects arising > out of the granting of the licence." Or something to that effect. > > It's better to know what I don't want: I don't want development > resources (that would be paid-for) to be tied up in (ultimately) > competitive projects, but I guess this is a decision each OpenBeOS > developer has to make for himself. > > Guys, I may be totally off-track here, but my concern is that > Palm sees and says "geez, the BeOS community is really > splintering; the risk is just too high. We won't do it." That's > what I want to avoid. > > Once we have the licence, we can do all sorts of acrobatics, > making everybody happy, but for now I think any isolated > initiative is not good for the BeOS. That's all.