[openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:17:18 +0100 CET
"Allen Brunson" <brunsona@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> François Revol 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,
Exactly!
With the one exception that he really did look at the code. He is also
just a (hu)man :-)
> and it would be even better this time, since he knows what he did
> wrong the
> last time.
Even I know now ;-)
> Personally I'd like nothing better than for MacOSX to move to an
> exact
> binary-compatible BFS duplicate, lock stock and barrel. It's the OS
> I've
> moved to since the demise of Be and I know BFS beats the pants off
> HFS+, so
> it would make my life a lot easier.
Well, I can assure you that this won't happen, fixing the problems in
BFS alone makes this next to impossible, but I don't think that Apple
has any interest in doing so as well.
Adios...
Axel.
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