Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 16:50 UTC, submitted by gaukler
Bernd Korz has announced that he will cease all development on Zeta [German], which effectively means Zeta will no longer be in development. Korz already wanted to quit development on Zeta when YellowTAB went belly up, but the numerous requests from customers to continue development eventually dragged him across the line. However, after the spat with Magnussoft, enough is enough for Korz. He states that he is not sure if and when the service pack to Zeta 1.5 will be released. He also states that he is not sure if and when he will open source or give to Haiku his contributions to Zeta. He explicitely states nor yT, nor Magnussoft own the source code to his work. My take: While I can understand Bernd, I am also sad to see this happen. For the little money and manpower Bernd had at his disposal, he did a magnificent job in making Zeta a usable operating system. I already knew this was about to happen, but a sad day it remains for Zeta users.
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RE[6]: Good and bad news...
by stew on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 22:24
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RE[7]: Good and bad news...
by umccullough on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 22:33
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I guess I'm only stating that despite all the possibilities that might emerge from the open-sourcing of Zeta/BeOS code - it probably won't benefit Haiku much.
If anything, it would likely "destroy" the Haiku project entirely, or probably cause a great number of people to lose interest in it. A great many people will end up flocking to the "official" BeOS/Zeta codebase and start building their own distro out of it.
It sounds like you are one of those people. In other words, you would immediately care less about the design choices and code quality of Haiku, and rather have something now. That is not the goal of Haiku.
Imagine if Windows was open-sourced... would that make ReactOS better?
Edited 2007-04-02 22:35
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> Don't buy into the "cruft" myth: code doesn't rust.
> It doesn't rot.
There's plenty of cruft in the BeOS source tree. Plenty of badly commented (or worse, commented in random European language) code. Plenty of stuff that works by smoke and mirrors, and a lot of stuff that was never released (the OpenGL based App Server, for example.) However, there's a lot of stuff that *does* work too. I'm sure we'd all be happy to see Net Server on Haiku to fill the gap until the Kernel netstack was finished. And hell, BONE... well.
(I'm guessing of course, reading into other people's comments, including ex-Be engineers and reading between the lines.)