"This review will not try to cater to users new to the BeOS world, but will focus on what has changed since my review of ZETA RC1 and what remains to be done for future releases."
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Member since:"I wonder if and when the open source alternatives will be ready. Those might represent a better future for BeOS, and the reasons are obvious:
1) An open source project dies only because of lack of interest.
2) How many people are willing to pay 100EUR for a hobby OS?"
The open-source Haiku project (http://www.haiku-os.org) continues to make rapid progress, but there is, of course, no deadline. I personally feel that Haiku does represent the best hope for the future of BeOS, for many reasons, including the ones that you mention. Haiku will not "focus-shift" or go away on the community in the way that Be Inc. did, and that yellowTab could (especially if they have no legitimate source code).
Another source of acrimony surrounding yellowTab and Zeta is simply that the BeOS community is small -- if devoted -- and so the question of dividing its energies becomes important. Although it may be a false dichotomy, for some the question is: Zeta or Haiku? Which should receive one's support, financial, moral, intellectual? Which is more likely to be of greater benefit to the cause of the rebirth of BeOS? So, naturally people begin to look closely and critically at everything, and the dubious legal position of Zeta begins to seem like a big liability to the community as a whole, not just to yellowTab.
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"For anyone that finds this possibility horrifying -- which many BeOS enthusiasts do -- the question is important."
I wonder if and when the open source alternatives will be ready. Those might represent a better future for BeOS, and the reasons are obvious:
1)An open source project dies only because of lack of interest.
2)How many people are willing to pay 100EUR for a hobby OS?