For the first time in its 7 years of existence, some decent statement has been released concering the legality of Zeta. Access, the current owner of Be, Inc.'s IP, states: "We have sent 'cease and desist' letters to YellowTab on a number of occasions, which have been uniformly ignored. If Herr Korz feels that he holds a legitimate license to the BeOS code he's been using, we're completely unaware of it, and I'd be fascinated to see him produce any substantiation for that claim." Update: Bernd Korz has replied on his blog.
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Also, "HaikuMax" distro is the name for recognition, so that you know you are talking about the BeOS Max/Haiku implementation not the official name. The official name is WalterOS. Until I decide to change it to anything else and if Haiku doesn't ban the use of Haiku, then "HaikuMax" is a candidate name. Not the offical name....
You seem aware of the issues. One thing I would recommend is you read up on branding. Then there's the issue of focus. I'm no big fan of kitchen sink distributions. They're just too bloated. One thing I would like to see is a distribution that just adds in best of breed core applications. Stuff that gets the job done and is interface compliant. I can see the Dell's of this world going for that.
Edited 2007-04-04 16:10
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2005-07-22
... I meant it makes sense for the people that own the IP and the trademarks to make use of them as they see fit, even if they don't use the trademarks... It wasn't about Max.
Also, "HaikuMax" distro is the name for recognition, so that you know you are talking about the BeOS Max/Haiku implementation not the official name. The official name is WalterOS. Until I decide to change it to anything else and if Haiku doesn't ban the use of Haiku, then "HaikuMax" is a candidate name. Not the offical name....
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