[openbeos] Re: Milestone Prize
- From: Gabe Yoder <gyoder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:41:14 -0400
Calm down. I think you are taking this far more seriously than any of the
developers. I think it is safe to say that most of us probably share Axel's
feelings on this matter. It isn't likely to divide things since the
milestone requires work from so many areas. Also, for a number of us, the
monetary amount doesn't carry as much weight as you might think.
Gabe
On Saturday 12 April 2003 08:11 am, you wrote:
> I think this is a stupid prize, which could cause a rupture in the already
> broken BeOS community. We don't want ppl acting on his own hoping to win a
> prize all coding on the same. We want a team. I know that I'm talking as a
> bystander, but this shouldn't be the meaning of the prize.
>
> greetings Syrek
>
> At 04:23 12-4-2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >"Zenja Solaja" <zenja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Picture this - In a darkened room on a development PC, someone will
> > > reboot their PC after compiling their work, and have the pleasure of
> > > being the first person on the planet to witness the running of a
> > > hacked
> > > OpenTracker and OBOS. Can you imagine the euphoria this person will
> > > experience when they first try to navigate the File System, and
> > > succeed. That developer will be the first OBOS user to use a mouse
> > > to
> > > navigate the file system instead of using the CLI shell.
> >
> >Sure that will be me ;-))
> >Anyway, it won't be a hacked version of OT - it will be the standard
> >version, for everyone to get. That's the basic idea behind binary
> >compatibility. Almost every component we have so far is in fact binary
> >compatible.
> >With the small exceptions of a) mistakes on our part, and b) an
> >intended change in the API, like it will be done for file system add-
> >ons and for the (currently private) disk device API.
> >I appreciate your offer, but be assured, that if I would win that
> >prize, I would divide it through every active (or core) member of the
> >project. It just wouldn't be fair to only give it to the one person who
> >accidently got the whole project running ;-)
> >
> >So long, I hope we'll be able to deliver that thing until next year :-P
> >
> >Adios...
> > Axel.
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