[openbeos] Scarabeos 2001 going to prevent deal between Be and Palm
- From: Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:05:22 +0200
Newly found an articel on German IT magazine Heise
(http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-12.09.01-000/)
about Scarabeos 2001 (http://de.geocities.com/scarabeos2001/), another
ambitious initiative to help BeOS to survive.
Since Palm has absolutely no interest to continue the development of
BeOS/BeIA, they want to _force_ Palm to put BeOS under a GPL-oriented
license, if Palm doesn't open-source it. They want to reach this goal by
holding the majority of Be's shares. 80 percent of the shares are owned
by small shareholders and since the share values are so low nowadays
they hope that there a enough people who will donate to this initiative.
They now need another 30 percent to hold the majority of Be's shares.
I'm curious what you think.
later,
Michael Noisternig.
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