[openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...
- From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:26:21 -0300 (BRT)
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Allen Brunson wrote:
> > I think we should move OpenBFS from MIT to LGPL to make sure
> > Apple doesn't rip it off... (but maybe it's too late) :)
>
>
> You guys are being silly. BFS was *Dominic's* idea, not yours. The very
> idea that he or anybody else at Apple would even *look* at your code is
> absurd. You overestimate yourselves by an order of magnitude. Dominic
> could probably re-write BFS from scratch in a couple of weeks by himself,
> and it would be even better this time, since he knows what he did wrong the
> last time.
Take it easy. No one who actually *CODED* anything for OpenBFS is
complaining (in fact, as I said, it would be cool if Apple used our code).
Saying "You overestimate yourselves" sees like an unfair thing to say.
-Bruno
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