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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:A Meta-Question by iamabot · · Score: 1, Troll

    heh.

    Personally I only get everything on tape. so if it's not too much trouble can you please have Taco or CBN read everything and mail me a tape. Thanks k buhbye.

  2. oh really??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' Perhaps more /.ers could keep this in mind ...

    In other words, this is just another case of programmers indulging in a hobby and not really trying to provide users with a genuine, useful. and usable alternative to Windows.

    Either you're helping save users from MS's clutches, or you're helping MS maintain their monopoly. There's no middle ground. Perhaps that's something more /.ers should keep in mind...

  3. Re:Open Source Development on Sourceforge: HOW-TO by MissMyNewton · · Score: 0, Troll

    BECAUSE I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN WEEKS

    And it's rather true, as you'll find if you poke about Sourceforge...

    P.S. The *&^%$#@! lameness filter wouldn't let me quote the whole sentence because of too many capital letters.

    What a fu**ing joke. Idiot f***ing moron who wrote that should...

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