[openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...

  • From: James Leone <jleone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:43:34 -0800

Leon Timmermans wrote:

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?

Up front and honest here, I have not contributed code to this, cause I really don't know how to....so take this as you will...

If Be, Inc. had changed the license for the BeOS to the GPL, you all would have a lot less work to do. ;)

Now I know some people may enjoy coding. So, I say the fact that the people are making the operating system instead of applications is a step backwards for the movement in general.

We already have a base operating system that is available for gratis, the BeOS. So why would people want to make another one?

I'll tell you why.

Its because they want the source to be open, so what happened to BeOS will not happen again, so that proprietary interests cannot make it go away.

In the case of Free BSD, many of the cool features included in it have been taken, and enhanced to no benefit of the community. These improvements could die with a proprietary company that is bought out, just like the BeOS code did.

So, my vote it to definitely go with the GPL, so future coders won't have to do this all over again.

James Leone





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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