http://www.osnews.com/story/19295/SCALE_Interviews_Members_of_the_Haiku_Project Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 18 May 2013 14:28:24 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?299882 http://www.osnews.com/thread?299882 "The primary goal was, and still is, recreate BeOS (R5) from scratch and improve upon it. But the truth is that we already deviated a bit from it as we are already improving over it even before reaching our R1 milestone."

Will this scope creep delay R1? Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DHofmann) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?299929 http://www.osnews.com/thread?299929 [RE the use of MIT licence for Haiku instead of GPL]

BGA: We just base it on the principle that anyone that decides to do that [close Haiku's source] will have interest on us working on it so they will help us instead of only taking our stuff.

That's wishful thinking. If anyone ever closes the source as part of a plan to make money, they will then see the free version of Haiku as competition. They will do nothing to help the original project. This is a big part of why the GPL was created in the first place.

On a more positive note... I built Haiku on my R5 box a couple days ago and was very impressed with how far it has come in the past year. It looks beautiful, and it took deliberate effort to crash. Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darian) Comments