I have no idea how I missed it (seriously) but read this: "It's been almost one year since we announced our conversations with ACCESS Co. Ltd. targeted at releasing legacy BeOS related documents, and 
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Member since:2006-12-28
This might sound funny, but I think it's a great idea to just release the docs as reference material only.
In the future, Access may want to sell off the BeOS IP it purchased to another company, and who is to say what that company would wish to do with such property?
This way, Haiku continues on to make a clean room reimplementation of the BeOS with no chance of a law suite.
Am I making sense?
Member since:2006-01-11
It's theorically true, but I think the BeOS IP value is nowadays pretty much equal to zero.
In addition, as Haiku is BSD-style licenced, a commercial variant of Haiku could be possible.
(Access could actually merge sourcecodes and sell that as BeOS but the task is probably immense for a microscopic business case...)
(BTW, I have a real paper BeBook, standing on a shelf neareby !)
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2005-07-06
Nice gift from Access but since those documents are released as legacy reference with "No derivatives" ,we can't modify them for the upcoming Haiku evolutions...
Edited 2008-03-26 08:38 UTC