[openbeos] Re: Re[2]: OpenBeOS in competition with BeOS

Without knowing the issue on the Palm deal, what I'd suggest is we can
work first on things that we know we will have to strip anyway.
I think mainly about the bootloader, I heard that it was licenced.
I still don't know why they didn't stick to LILO... (maybe to be able to
boot from a windows partition...)
So we can either try to:
- modify the NewOS bootloader so it can boot the real BeOS kernel and see the 
issues,
- write one from scratch :-( ,
- maybe we could write an add-on for GRUB, which already has lots of features,
I heard.

This thing will have to be done in either case (the deal concludes or not),
so why not beggining from that ?
Anyone has ideas on things we know are licenced and has to be striped out 
anyway ?


François.

En réponse à "Justin: Rotating Pies!" <polchlop@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
>

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