Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Mar 2008 22:29 UTC
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:2006-01-11
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 !)
Member since:2006-12-28
It's theorically true, but I think the BeOS IP value is nowadays pretty much equal to zero.
I don't agree. Although I understand that it seems that way, all you need to take are two prime examples of where BeOS got it right, and where the rest of the industry is still playing catch up. Parallel processing and the BFS.
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...)
(Access could actually merge sourcecodes and sell that as BeOS but the task is probably immense for a microscopic business case...)
I never thought of it that way, well said. Although I don't think Access is ever going to try that, who knows what might happen in the future? would be a pretty nasty thing to try on the Haiku devs though.
(BTW, I have a real paper BeBook, standing on a shelf neareby !)
Oh, man! I'm green with envy! Gonna have a look on eBay, see if I can pick one up!
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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?