Star BeBook, Be Newsletters Available Online
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Mar 2008 22:29 UTC
BeOS & Derivatives 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."
E-mail Print r 10   17 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/f2b
Permalink for comment 306727
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE[3]: Nice but...
by SReilly on Wed 26th Mar 2008 15:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Nice but..."
SReilly
Member since:
2006-12-28

It's theorically true, but I think the BeOS IP value is nowadays pretty much equal to zero.

I don't agree. Although I understand that it seems that way, all you need to take are two prime examples of where BeOS got it right, and where the rest of the industry is still playing catch up. Parallel processing and the BFS.

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...)

I never thought of it that way, well said. Although I don't think Access is ever going to try that, who knows what might happen in the future? would be a pretty nasty thing to try on the Haiku devs though.

(BTW, I have a real paper BeBook, standing on a shelf neareby !)

Oh, man! I'm green with envy! Gonna have a look on eBay, see if I can pick one up!

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 2