Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Apr 2007 09:14 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc
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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2006-02-19
You wrote:
"In fact, I think I would say I agree here. *Every* new person that wants to try BeOS gets directed to "BeOS Max", which is sad. Max IMHO is moving away from what BeOS was/is."
So, when I mentioned that Max had version absolutely without bloat - you ignored that notice. Where is bloat there and how MiniMax breaks "BeOS way"?
Then you wrote:
"It has the patches yes, but those can easily be obtained anyway. What you get instead is a *lot* of bloat and an altered look."
Did you really ever use BeOS??? Yes, those can be obtained and installed - but it is not the case in most situation when and WHY you need those patches - you get chicken/eggs problem here. And even if you have spare older computer, applying patches on existing system in order to prepare "your own good distro" may break its functionality. I have very long and big experience in all that experimenting.
So this your statement is also very very weak.
And third about all additional soft available on the net.
1)It seems your needs are minimalistics or you really almost do not use this OS. My 8-year experience with net repos shows, that soft is permanently disappearing, and sometimes even wasn't published there, at public repos, like that newer Perl version, or cvs version etc which I definitely need for my development.
2)BeOS isn't even Linux, and I saw lot of cases in BeOS community when it was impossible to run networking in BeOS on people's hardware. So it is additional trouble and hassle - download it in another OS, then do sometimes dead grip tricks to transfer it to BFS partiton.
3)In some countries and places even at time when BeOS MAX rised even landline phone modem Internet access wasn't cheap, not to say about real broadband.
So it is another real reason for people to choose even Big MAX distro.
And about BeOS way feel. At least for me it was muchcloser to that feel than Zeta. About this last my I can agree that it is very subjective, but I'm feel obliged to left something here for you to continue arguing
Edited 2007-04-04 22:16