[openbeos] Re: News, Views and Overdues

  • From: Zenja Solaja <solaja@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:08:26 +1000

bsa wrote:
>I think, we must wait some time - maybe Palm will continue development of
BeOS

We've been waiting since the focus shift.  Its best to assume that BeOS is
dead, and that Palm will not release updates.  If 6 months into the project
Palm decides to suprise us all and release R6 and open source the
components, then we'll religiously praise Palms leadership and forsight and
start beating their drum.  Until that happens, I'll assume the worst and
continue with our projects.  The worst thing that can happen is that we
learn a few things, and thats why I'm here in the first place.

Also, I dont want to re-live the agony when Palm go belly up in 2 years.
The whole point of OpenBeOS is to create an OS which noone can kill,
modelled after BeOS.  If we had only started after the focus shift, who
knows how far we would have been today?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bsa [SMTP:bsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:53 PM
> To:   openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      [openbeos] Re: News, Views and Overdues
> 
> 
> > Byt the way, have you tought of promoting this idea outside of the US? I
> > know that there is a good and very devoted BeOS community in Japan. They
> 
> BeOS communities also are in Russia and Ukraine.
> 
> I think, we must wait some time - maybe Palm will continue development of
> BeOS.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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