[openbeos] Re: Apple to steal yet more BeOS features...
- From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:30:13 +0100 (MET)
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, James Leone wrote:
> 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.
Please stop this rather pointless discussion. The choice of license has
been made a long time ago and won't be undone, unless all contributors
suddenly decide to do so. Which a strongly doubt.
CU, Ingo
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