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OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-room-for-more dept.

DeltaSigma writes: "Michael Phipps, of the OpenBeos team, recently hosted a public Q&A Session where many of the public musings over a completely new open source operating system have been addressed. The answer to all the 'is there room in the market?' questions was answered in a way: 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' Perhaps more /.ers could keep this in mind ..."

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  1. Re:BEos by d3xt3r · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Not that I don't agree (because I do). But I just think it's funny that this is what Windows NT was supposed to be: an entirely new OS built from the scratch.

    Except for the constant BSOD was all know how that turned o

  2. Re:Good points by MaxVlast · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't want to be a jerk unnecessarily (too late, I guess), but to me, mis-capitalizing a specifically-capitalized word is the same thing as misspelling it. The name of the company was Be. The Operating system was BeOS. Another model of computer is the Mac (not the MAC, it's short for Macintosh, not media access control), which is made by Apple. Just like it's Linux and not LINUX, or Linus's name isn't LinUs, other proper nouns do not include InterNet, PhotoShop, or MicroSoft. Enough of being a jerk, back to being a lazy ass.

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