[openbeos] Re: Scarabeos 2001 going to prevent deal between Be and Palm
- From: Fernando Lopez <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:24:42 +0200
At 00:05 14/09/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Newly found an articel on German IT magazine Heise
>(http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-12.09.01-000/)
>about Scarabeos 2001 (http://de.geocities.com/scarabeos2001/), another
>ambitious initiative to help BeOS to survive.
>Since Palm has absolutely no interest to continue the development of
>BeOS/BeIA, they want to _force_ Palm to put BeOS under a GPL-oriented
>license, if Palm doesn't open-source it. They want to reach this goal by
>holding the majority of Be's shares. 80 percent of the shares are owned
>by small shareholders and since the share values are so low nowadays
>they hope that there a enough people who will donate to this initiative.
>They now need another 30 percent to hold the majority of Be's shares.
>I'm curious what you think.
>later,
>Michael Noisternig.
>
>
I actually hold 555 Be Inc. shares. If someone tell me who can I contribute
to this initiative, I would do.
Greetings: Fernando
fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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