[openbeos] Re: Today's Update

Well I must admit I totally agree with this guy. I too would already have 
downloaded the whole thing and filled my hard disk and all my workspaces with 
the files to see how it works :)

Besides I'm not sure myself can spend lot of time on this project... as a 
student I have lots of things to do (bahhhh, courses :-( ), and there's also 
some project that are already waiting for me (one of them is Prosit: 
http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_prosit/index.html
, another is NiftyPlayer). I think this is the same for others here, don't 
forget we are not payed by Be to spend our days on the project... 
(anyway they couldn't do it now :^) ), although I'd love that.

Anyway I won't be able to do many things this month, I have to work on maths 
stuff (exam in 2 weeks), my driving licence to pass (yeah I said pass), and in 
4 weeks the scholar year begins, with all the useless courses you need to go 
to... I hope to be able to organize enough.

François.

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Michael Phipps wrote:
> > The Palm thing seems to be taking longer than I had hoped. I am glad
> we
> > decided not to wait for that to conclude. 
> 
> I guess you'll have to give the BeFAQs guys a little more than a week
> to
> complete their response to Palm. After all... it's a pretty crucial
> piece for the future of BeOS. Then I suspect Palm need a few weeks to
> decide too.
> 
> But sure, the enthusiasm is good but I can just as well start by
> saying
> that I'm the the sceptic (hesitating, pessimistic, call it what you
> want) part of the openbeos audience.
> 
> I would really love if BeOS was open source and there's nothing I
> would
> rather spend my programming hours on than working on the guts of
> the most elegant and innovative open source operating system out
> there.
> I'm a firm believer in open source (Actually more to the Free Software
> side.) and that that's what's going to ensure programming will be fun
> for me many years to come.
> 
> ... but! I still have many doubts about which direction will be the
> best
> in the long run. I agree 100% with Peter Stegeman. The OpenBeOS
> project
> as it is beginning to take form is _a_huge_task_ with great risc of
> ending like the AROS project. They've been working in 6 years, with
> 142
> contributes and claim to be 75% done...
> 
> >> with reimplementing the original OS <<
> 
> In the mean time the world has changed. The _reason_ to do the AROS
> project was gone. They wanted to recreate their (at that time) modern
> OS, but it quickly became old technology.
> Just think about that one year later (1996) BeOS showed up already
> more
> advanced in many areas!
> 
> Therefore I really think there should be taken steps to avoid becoming
> another AROS.
> 
> There's still a lot of questions I haven't answered for my self. I'll
> spare you the details until I've figured out what they are :) But in
> general I thing there should be put more thought into why and how we
> are
> going to do this before we start coding.
> 
> 
> Ok.. enough "pessimism". If Palm opened the BeOS source code I would
> already be deep into the kernel, AppKit, StorageKit and BONE. It's not
> that I don't want to work on keeping the spirit of BeOS alive in an
> open
> source OS project... I just question the best way to do it.
> ... and I really do admire your enthusiasm :)  
> 
> 
> regards,
> Peter
> 
> 
>

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