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Nobody disrespected ex-Be engineers (heck, my husband is one of them). Dianne and many others are personal friends!

However, the hard-blooded reality of the thing is, PhOS is out there, we like it or not. And because it is out there (and PalmSource doesn't seem to care to sue), an article on it seems appropriate, just to introduce the damn thing. It is as people will preview a leaked Longhorn or a leaked OSX, other people have the need to review a leaked BeOS. That doesn't mean that there is any disrespect anywhere, it just means that there are users that DO care and they DO love BeOS, and this is why they bothered with such a copy in the first place.

Thom was clear: PhOS is illegal. Nobody said otherwise. But it is out there, available freely (not on some strange FTP sites or anything, but really available), and PalmSource simply doesn't care to sue at all. That's good enough for anyone to download a copy and write a review. If ex-Be engineers feel bad about the whole situation, I am sure the MS engineers would also feel the same seeing reviews of their unfinished work out there too. But what can you do?