[openbeos] Re: unrar & about us

On 2005-01-28 at 02:25:41 [-0500], Adi Oanca wrote:
>     Auch! I thought we will avoid the distribution nightmare. I *hate* 
> Linux coming in a lot of "desktop" flavors.
>     What happened to "Doing The Right Thing(TM)"? I thought we will offer 
> our distribution. If we do so, do you think others will have a chance, 
> especially because of licensing problems? (and cost)

I am sort of surprised that this is coming up...

Basically, the plan is something like this.
We will put out a base distro. Pretty much what builds in CVS/SVN/whatever.
A bootable CD with our apps. Nothing (much) else.

Now, with an MIT license, anyone can do with our code pretty much what they 
want, which was, of course, intentional. But what we would *PREFER* is that 
people wouldn't screw with our base distro. That the stuff that we provide 
would be a package. Distro makers can/should add other apps, art work, sounds, 
whatever, but keep the base, core distribution intact. That will mean that 
apps, etc will continue to work on every distro without recompiling. Thus 
avoiding the nastiness that has come about in the Linux realm where there is so 
much hassle with that stuff. 



>     We're not targeting server or enterprise platform, we're only talking 
> about desktop. Don't you think we can do enough so that we can ship ca 
> capable desktop OS?

Sure.

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