Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Apr 2007 22:39 UTC, submitted by El-Al
"We are very pleased to announce that Access, the current holders of the BeOS intellectual property, has responded positively to our request for permission to reproduce the BeBook and all the Be Newsletters. As a result, we will be able to release these BeOS legacy documents under a Creative Commons license."
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David "Lefty" Schlesinger of ACCESS Co. just left a comment on Bits of news ( http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5496/44/ ) to the effect that:
Zeta is not, nor has it ever been, a licensee of PalmSource (or ACCESS, the company which acquired PalmSource year before last) in any way, shape or form. If Zeta or magnussoft has claimed that they have a license with us, that's a complete falsehood.
As the legitimate owners of the intellectual property formerly belonging to Be, our position is that the product marketed by YellowTab and then by magnussoft represents a pirated version of BeOS, done without our permission or approval.
magnussoft is thus in no position to open source anything, since their product, in its entirety, represents a derivative work of our intellectual property.
We have attempted to contact Access and Mr Schlesinger to confirm, and elaborate on, these statements.