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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Member since:2006-02-19
Actually, being legal owner of original BeOS distros from 4.1 to 5.03 PRO, trying path with installing all needed from outside source etc, i'm using everywhere just BeOS MAX for all purposes, including development.
"It just works", especially on some post-2002 hardware.
And I removed minumum minimorum from those installs, inspite I'm fanatic bloatware hater - just some libs which can confuse autoconfig/make system for some (im)ported apps.
And there is also strong argument against Earl Colby Pottinger take. Earl - didn't you ever met "dead links" at bebits, especially after Be death? Didn't you spend your worth time to searching it here and there?
In such situation, which differs it from flowering Linux, where always zillion of repos are available, BeOS-MAX-like distro is really priceless gift to BeOS comunity
Member since:2005-08-19
"It just works", especially on some post-2002 hardware.
And that is the only viable argument for directing new users to BeOS Max IMO.
What I'm trying to say, is that with Haiku, I don't see the need for distros. I don't see the problem with downloading what I need myself. I'm entitled to an opinion just as much as those who argument in favor of distributions. And this has nothing to do with attacking Vasper personally! I'm just stating what I feel about the distro culture.
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2005-08-19
There was always choice in that, and blaiming someone's work (with doing nothing byself - even to clarify situation for self) is not that best way to behave.
I don't think you know anything about what I've done in this manner. I haven't made my own distro, your right about that!
In Haiku "patches" won't be an excuse to say that distros is a good thing - in my eyes they aren't. Haiku is collaborative work. Everyone making distros won't help a thing. And why do people feel the need to make distros? Distros seems in my eyes somewhat narcissistic. I'm not saying Vasper is. It may be that he maintains BeOS Max to help people out trying BeOS, and he should be honored for that.