Helmar, I full agree with you but it's nothing nore than a dream... <dream> Imagine something: You gain for free the right to develop BeOS under a restricted license... IF 10000 BeOS are ready to buy you new BeOS 2002 at 50$, you will gain if you are lucky 20$ per copy, then 200 000 $ !! First, I'm not sure that 10000 user are ready to pay ( For Eden, only 4 people paid 5$... ;) ) and next year, who will buy you OS?? 200 000$ is less than what my company pays for 2 engineers like me... how do you pay advertising, charges, hardware...? To be more realistic, you can earn 50 000$ and will need 100 coders who can't survive with 500$. Problably, you will say that they will be developers who work on theyr spare time, then you will need 1000 developers... who will work for 50$ when Palm will earn millions with their work. </dream> In such conditions, I preffer work gratis and to know that my work can help someone somewhere who downloads my work for free and like it. Guillaume