Well I must admit I totally agree with this guy. I too would already have downloaded the whole thing and filled my hard disk and all my workspaces with the files to see how it works :) Besides I'm not sure myself can spend lot of time on this project... as a student I have lots of things to do (bahhhh, courses :-( ), and there's also some project that are already waiting for me (one of them is Prosit: http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_prosit/index.html , another is NiftyPlayer). I think this is the same for others here, don't forget we are not payed by Be to spend our days on the project... (anyway they couldn't do it now :^) ), although I'd love that. Anyway I won't be able to do many things this month, I have to work on maths stuff (exam in 2 weeks), my driving licence to pass (yeah I said pass), and in 4 weeks the scholar year begins, with all the useless courses you need to go to... I hope to be able to organize enough. François. > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Michael Phipps wrote: > > The Palm thing seems to be taking longer than I had hoped. I am glad > we > > decided not to wait for that to conclude. > > I guess you'll have to give the BeFAQs guys a little more than a week > to > complete their response to Palm. After all... it's a pretty crucial > piece for the future of BeOS. Then I suspect Palm need a few weeks to > decide too. > > But sure, the enthusiasm is good but I can just as well start by > saying > that I'm the the sceptic (hesitating, pessimistic, call it what you > want) part of the openbeos audience. > > I would really love if BeOS was open source and there's nothing I > would > rather spend my programming hours on than working on the guts of > the most elegant and innovative open source operating system out > there. > I'm a firm believer in open source (Actually more to the Free Software > side.) and that that's what's going to ensure programming will be fun > for me many years to come. > > ... but! I still have many doubts about which direction will be the > best > in the long run. I agree 100% with Peter Stegeman. The OpenBeOS > project > as it is beginning to take form is _a_huge_task_ with great risc of > ending like the AROS project. They've been working in 6 years, with > 142 > contributes and claim to be 75% done... > > >> with reimplementing the original OS << > > In the mean time the world has changed. The _reason_ to do the AROS > project was gone. They wanted to recreate their (at that time) modern > OS, but it quickly became old technology. > Just think about that one year later (1996) BeOS showed up already > more > advanced in many areas! > > Therefore I really think there should be taken steps to avoid becoming > another AROS. > > There's still a lot of questions I haven't answered for my self. I'll > spare you the details until I've figured out what they are :) But in > general I thing there should be put more thought into why and how we > are > going to do this before we start coding. > > > Ok.. enough "pessimism". If Palm opened the BeOS source code I would > already be deep into the kernel, AppKit, StorageKit and BONE. It's not > that I don't want to work on keeping the spirit of BeOS alive in an > open > source OS project... I just question the best way to do it. > ... and I really do admire your enthusiasm :) > > > regards, > Peter > > >