Helmar, Maybe don't you understand that Palm bought (with $) BeOS too. If you succeed in your quest, all that you will gain is " the right to ** PAY ** " to help Palm to develop BeOS... If: 1/ You want a license at 0 $ Never, Palm will find an interest to *GIVE* you a license (and of course the access to the source code). Stop comparison with the case of Sun or Netscape.... IT'S DIFFERENT 2/ You want a license a XXXX $ Who pay? YOU will never find developers which agree to pay to work gratis on an OS which can make Palm earn money. To join in stupidity is not a solution, but we can dream.... please don't ask us to believe that Palm can be mad enough to give what it buyed. ( if you have time to spend, you can contact Microsoft to release all the source of their products ;) ) Guillaume