Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Feb 2006 17:27 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc
Haiku's Micheal Phipps has posted 20 reasons as to why he thinks Haiku is relevant. "Build all of the libraries that developers need into the OS and update them with an ultra-high quality build every year or two. No one likes to reload their OS and no one likes .dll or .so misery." Read on for the whole list.
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2005-11-27
The community of contributors who put their own time and effort into making Haiku -- my guess is that they will probably not be happier after the propietary, more popular, closed-source version gets filled with patented, licensed, DRM'd software. When commercial, third-party off-the-shelf Haiku software won't run on their pure version because it requires whatever special sauce company X put into the OS libs. At that point, after all their users have left for greener pastures (where iTunes for Haiku works!), Haiku contributors will likely feel like stooges who worked for free to make company X rich. That's my guess.
You seem to be confused. If the developers felt that way, they wouldn't have used the MIT license. In fact, I'd go so far to say that, if the developers only care about themselves, it's not really for the community, now is it?