
I have no idea how I missed it (seriously) but read this:
"It's been almost one year since we announced our conversations with ACCESS Co. Ltd. targeted at releasing legacy BeOS related documents, and today last week we were happy to inform the community that this project has finally arrived to a happy conclusion: the BeBook and all the Be Newsletters are now available online. As an emerging open source project, documentation for Haiku is still hard to come by; and while our Documentation Team works on creating Haiku-specific material, the BeBook and the Be Newsletters will provide valuable reference material for all developers, new and experienced alike."
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2006-01-11
It's theorically true, but I think the BeOS IP value is nowadays pretty much equal to zero.
In addition, as Haiku is BSD-style licenced, a commercial variant of Haiku could be possible.
(Access could actually merge sourcecodes and sell that as BeOS but the task is probably immense for a microscopic business case...)
(BTW, I have a real paper BeBook, standing on a shelf neareby !)