[openbeos] Re: Haiku vs Haiku-OS [was: Re: Ruby+GTK2 for Haiku?]
- From: Arnold <arnoldvanh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:06:37 +0100
2007/2/16, Jackson, Anthony <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew McCall
>
> On 16/02/07, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > append "oh ess" and
> > the geekiness factor ramps up by a few orders of magnitude.
>
> Not that my opinion is worth much, but I totally agree with you.
Oi, I'm proud of my geekyness! :) But I'll refrain from appending "OS"
in the future on the grounds that no-one says "Windows-OS" despite it
being named after a popular mechanism for keeping weather out of houses.
> What the owner of Haiku.org is doing is perfectly legal and
> he has a right to do it, I don't really agree with it, but
> thats another issues. Would it not be easier contacting the
> owner and explaining the situation and asking if we could buy
> it for a nominal fee, and/or putting one of those "dead-bolt"
> things on so as soon as the domain expires we grab it?
Even if they fail to renew, the domain goes on hold for a while, so
snatching it away is quite unlikely.
A game I do development on has a .com squatted on by an advertiser (it's
a semi-unusual name, so I don't think anyone else would want it). I
once approached the owner without indicating that I was in any way
related to the game of the same name, and casually mentioned that I
liked it and noticed it was up for sale. He wanted $4500 for it. Given
that Haiku is orders of magnitude more popular than this game, I expect
the owner would want orders of magnitude more.
Besides, I don't think there is anything wrong with haiku-os.org, it
describes what it is. :)
Tony
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I agree there is nothing wrong with haiku-os, still nothing will be lost
trying to take over haiku.org for a reasonable price. If owner doesn't want
to cooperate, maybe in future haiku renames itself(?? just poking here) or a
status-quo remains and the current owner only keeps putting money in the
domainname registration. So Be it.
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Cheers,
Arnold
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