[openbeos] Re: Visual design stuff again

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> Well, we as a team don't consider this - we won't spend time creating 
> a 
> new look now. But we will certainly not stop you from developing your 
> own "new look" - everybody can do this: on his own. There is only a 
> very slight chance that any of those efforts will make it into our 
> tree, and maybe only available via #ifdef anyway.

How bad would you feel if I did do it separately though?

You release R1 quietly, not expecting anyone will really want to use it 
apart from those few already using R5. I believe that the appeal is 
wider, so take all of your code, add a couple of hundered lines to 
change the look, and keep the code private. I push it a bit, send a few 
copies to a few magazines, get a few screenshots up on computer 
websites, and sell a few thousand copies at £20 a time. Nice little 
earner for me (for next to no work), OBOS gets no mention anywhere, no 
increased interest, no more developers.

That is not something that I would do, but that is not to say that 
nobody would. All I want is for people to be able to see R1 for what it 
truly is, for more people to download it (geeks, devs, and users), for 
more hype to surround the project ready for the release to conquer the 
world, and for more people to help develop said world-conquering 
release. There is nothing wrong with "selling" R1 as > R5 - my parents 
would still have no interest in it at all - you wouldn't be swamped 
with clueless users. What would happen is geeks, current- and ex-Be 
users would be much more interested in R1, and then they could help to 
spread the word to others, ready for R2.


Simon

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