[openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...
- From: "Leon Timmermans" <openbeos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:21:58 +0100
Am I missing the point?
Someone stealing our is the biggest compliment a programer can get!
Those who are worried about 'stealing' of our code should ask themselves
what OBOS' goal is.
"It's an open source effort to first recreate and then extend a most
excellent, once-commercially-supported, closed-source, media-oriented
desktop computer operating system called the Be operating system (BeOS).
......The goal of OpenBeOS R1 is to be source- and binary-compatible with
BeOS R5. Improvements to OpenBeOS will follow only after R1 is completed."
We want to make a good (the best?) desktop OS, right?
I see no conflict.
The essence of the MIT and BSD licences is that everyone can benefit,
remember
If Apple would use some of our code, we could perhaps even exploit it ('even
Apple uses our technology'), right?
Leon Timmermans
----- Original Message -----
From: Sigmund Kopperud
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 7:33 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...
Bruno G. Albuquerque wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sigmund Kopperud wrote:
i second changing the license. you should make the license change
retroactive too, so apple can't steal old code
Heh. See my previous email. It won't happen. When we shoose the MIT
license we knew somethin like this could happen and, if it really does, it
will be actually cool.
-Bruno
umm
yeah
but can we get a promise that they'll release the changes?
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