"We are very pleased to announce that Access, the current holders of the BeOS intellectual property, has responded positively to our request for permission to reproduce the BeBook and all the Be Newsletters. As a result, we will be able to release these BeOS legacy documents under a Creative Commons license."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2006-06-09
> they don't have to give it away,
> even if it does not cost them anything.
In fact it does cost them something. Haiku and Access had exchanged several emails and Access's legal (IP checking) and PR (the news press content) departments were involved in the process. Not an huge cost but not totally free (as in bear) either, as I'm sure one hour of these guys is not cheap.
They deserve our thank you, indeed. They bet on it, having a positive image will pay back this small cost, no doubt.
Member since:2006-01-24
yep, 'nice' kind of sums it up. although most this information is likely already available scattered across the web, it will be great to have all this information under one 'roof' (haiku-os.org). making it as easy as possible for budding developers to find information is important since developers is something Haiku/Beos desperately needs.
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2006-12-28
Nice of Access to allow that, although it's not like they have to actually do anything.
Now if they released the source code for BeOS, that would really rock!