>The announcement is only 2 days old and there's already a sourceforge >project to recreate BeOS. Now, while there's absolutely nothing wrong with >enthusiasm it seems to me like the BeOS community is so enthusiastic that they >are about to run of in 117 different directions... a few of them represented >here :) Actually, I was hoping to focus some of those different splinters into one group, so that we might actually get somewhere. >We actually don't know is BeOS is dead yet >(http://www.befaqs.com/news/readstory.php?story=56). As I see it there are two >options: While I salute the optimism shown there, I have real doubts about Palm's interest in the desktop market. On the other hand, I would be thrilled and excited if I/we could work with them to open source BeOS. >*) Either Palm does better with regard to BeOS than Be did the last 6 months. >That is, release BONE/OpenGL and continue development. >.... in that case there might be a need for an OpenBeOS project, but it's >goals will be very much determined by the direction of the real BeOS. Maybe it >wouldn't be worth the trouble. I would love to see that. But I really don't believe it. >*) Or... Palm does anything worse than Be with regards to moving BeOS >forward... Then I think a new open source OS project is needed. In the mean time, we are conducting a "thought experiment". Planning, deaming and thinking. >I think the first goal of an OpenBeOS project (of any part of the BeOS >community actually) would be to get an official statement from Palm... maybe >even urging them to opensource BeOS (then we'll have our OpenBeOS project :) ). >After that... (if Palm's a dead end) .. then full steam ahead and (re)create >the perfect OS :) I want to strike while the iron is hot and people are interested. Before they wipe their BeOS partitions and load Mandrake or something. ;-) >I've got a few more comments on the design goals of OpenBeOS, but I think I'll >wait a bit until the situaton stabilizes. Let me know! Either privately (mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) or on here. If the internet isn't good for anything else, it is good for debating ideas. :-) >Peter > > >