OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19523/BeBook_Be_Newsletters_Available_Online Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:58:56 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Great news http://osnews.com/thread?306646 http://osnews.com/thread?306646 This is great thanks to everyone that made this possible. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JPisini) Comments anyone? http://osnews.com/thread?306664 http://osnews.com/thread?306664 Does anyone actually care about this?
Honestly.. Haiku, are you serious? Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cozby) Comments Programming for the Be Operating System free also http://osnews.com/thread?306667 http://osnews.com/thread?306667 Programming the Be Operating System
Writing Programs for the Be Operating System

By Dan Parks Sydow
July 1999

Has also became Freeware:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/beosprog/book/

I run Be every day. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Syphadias) Comments RE: anyone? http://osnews.com/thread?306668 http://osnews.com/thread?306668 Trick question? Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (10wattmindtrip) Comments RE: anyone? http://osnews.com/thread?306673 http://osnews.com/thread?306673 Have you been on OSNews long? BeOS (and Haiku) news has always been given importance here, and rightly so. I have no idea what your pet OS is, but I'm damn sure not going to slam it just to get a reaction, like you seem to be doing here. Please do us all a favor and crawl back under your bridge. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morgan) Comments RE[2]: anyone? http://osnews.com/thread?306675 http://osnews.com/thread?306675 Nope - apparently just ignorant bastard. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306680 http://osnews.com/thread?306680 Nice gift from Access but since those documents are released as legacy reference with "No derivatives" ,we can't modify them for the upcoming Haiku evolutions...Edited 2008-03-26 08:38 UTC Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jeanmarc) Comments RE: Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306681 http://osnews.com/thread?306681 This might sound funny, but I think it's a great idea to just release the docs as reference material only.

In the future, Access may want to sell off the BeOS IP it purchased to another company, and who is to say what that company would wish to do with such property?

This way, Haiku continues on to make a clean room reimplementation of the BeOS with no chance of a law suite.

Am I making sense? Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments RE[2]: Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306685 http://osnews.com/thread?306685 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 !) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Treza) Comments I have the BeOS Bible... http://osnews.com/thread?306690 http://osnews.com/thread?306690 really cool book, also a lot of Be history in there.... Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Googol) Comments Bah http://osnews.com/thread?306694 http://osnews.com/thread?306694 Just as I thought I could get lots of cash for pristine condition BeOS Bible and Programming the BeOS Operating system books they get opensourced.... humbug! ;) Edited 2008-03-26 12:45 UTC Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marcof) Comments RE[3]: Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306727 http://osnews.com/thread?306727
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! Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments RE[4]: Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306774 http://osnews.com/thread?306774 If we are flexing our BeOS book collections, I have the Be Developer's guide (aka the Be book), Be advanced topics, Programming thr Be operating system, The BeOS bible, Practicle file system design (deals with bfs design) and Koch Media BeOS user guide. Also have a Gobe productive manual too ;-)Edited 2008-03-26 20:05 UTC Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments RE: anyone? http://osnews.com/thread?306789 http://osnews.com/thread?306789 I still have a BeOS 5 Pro installation that I boot into every once in a while.

Then again, I also have an OS/2 box I use fulltime and I like Apple ][ games via Appler, so...

Seriously, though. If you can install it, it's still a nice OS. I managed to get a copy of Firefox 2.0.12 for it, *and* I managed to install it and get it to run, so the platform can't be all bad. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments RE[4]: Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306932 http://osnews.com/thread?306932 I think it's a pretty safe bet that ACCESS is not going to be bringing out a competitor to Haiku. We've got other things to do, we're busy, busy, busy.

David "Lefty" Schlesinger
Director, Open Source Technologies
ACCESS Co., Ltd. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lefty) Comments Be Bible http://osnews.com/thread?306980 http://osnews.com/thread?306980 Still got my Be Bible and the little book that came with BeOS 5 Pro. As fate would have it, the to layer of my Be CD peeled back, but it's too old for this computer anyhow, I'm just happy I still have my books! Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Syphadias) Comments RE[5]: Nice but... http://osnews.com/thread?306986 http://osnews.com/thread?306986 Thanks for answering, puts my mind at ease! :-) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments