[openbeos] Re: unrar & about us

Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> distro. It will then take some capable people from Haiku Org much 
> like 
> yellowTab did (hell, for a 1000Euro/$ I would happily sign) and 
> Haiku.org 
> would simply go out of men, men which all these years have 
> accumulated 
> a lot of experience and deep understanding of the parts they are 
> working at.

As I see it, that's part of the idea - you just have to make sure that 
you still be able to work on Haiku itself, and have the company give 
back something to the project.

[...]
>       Also, this being an MIT project you can't protect code from being 
> stolen. If 
> we DON't ship a VERY capable distro, we are set for extinction. 
> Knowing the 
> fact that Haiku can't ship a free distro with a lot of codecs and 
> programs 
> bundled, I think we should offer two, almost identical distros: 1) 
> Haiku-OS 
> Personal - free - having a the most needed free programs/codecs, and 
> 2) 
> Haiku-OS Pro - 40-50$ - having the most needed free *& commercial* 
> programs/codes.

Don't forget that we're a non-profit organization. The whole idea of 
the code that we produce is that it's going to be free - for everyone 
to use, even in a commercial way.
I think we should definitely make distributions of our work, but I 
don't see us taking money for it; if I'd sell a value-added 
distribution of Haiku myself, I'd certainly give back what I can - 
either in further development of Haiku itself, or by funding developers 
to do it.
It's in the responsibility of the users to put their money at the right 
place. We as a project can certainly help them doing this right :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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