[openbeos] Re: Re[2]: OpenBeOS in competition with BeOS
- From: revol@xxxxxxx
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:56:54 +0200 (MEST)
Without knowing the issue on the Palm deal, what I'd suggest is we can
work first on things that we know we will have to strip anyway.
I think mainly about the bootloader, I heard that it was licenced.
I still don't know why they didn't stick to LILO... (maybe to be able to
boot from a windows partition...)
So we can either try to:
- modify the NewOS bootloader so it can boot the real BeOS kernel and see the
issues,
- write one from scratch :-( ,
- maybe we could write an add-on for GRUB, which already has lots of features,
I heard.
This thing will have to be done in either case (the deal concludes or not),
so why not beggining from that ?
Anyone has ideas on things we know are licenced and has to be striped out
anyway ?
François.
En réponse à "Justin: Rotating Pies!" <polchlop@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> I think I speak for the bulk of those on the openBe list when I say
> that
> we're not trying to hurt your effort, but by sitting and waiting for
> results, we will waste alot of time that we could get a lot of work
> done. As it is, we're only politicking right now. Regardless, I'm
> fairly
> sure if Palm listens to you, well over 90% of those working on openBe
> will
> come running to jump in on the real thing.
>
> I don't think you have to worry too much about a fragmenting community
> --
> we all know where our alleigences are.
>
> -Justin
>
> >
> > I want you to state: "OpenBeOS is in support of BeUnited's
> > initiative to obtain the licence to the BeOS from Palm, and is
> > willing to make itself available for development projects arising
> > out of the granting of the licence." Or something to that effect.
> >
> > It's better to know what I don't want: I don't want development
> > resources (that would be paid-for) to be tied up in (ultimately)
> > competitive projects, but I guess this is a decision each OpenBeOS
> > developer has to make for himself.
> >
> > Guys, I may be totally off-track here, but my concern is that
> > Palm sees and says "geez, the BeOS community is really
> > splintering; the risk is just too high. We won't do it." That's
> > what I want to avoid.
> >
> > Once we have the licence, we can do all sorts of acrobatics,
> > making everybody happy, but for now I think any isolated
> > initiative is not good for the BeOS. That's all.
>
>
>
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