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Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-we-can dept.

Gentu writes "Koki from the japanese site jpbe recently interviewed Michael Phipps, the project leader of OpenBeOS, the open source re-implementation of the BeOS. Read here for the english version of the interview where Michael is discussing the roots of the project, the current status, the roadmap, the choice of the MIT license, its relationship to YellowTAB's Zeta and the other efforts to resurrect BeOS, BeUnited and the Sun Java port and more."

5 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Great! by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where can I pre-order an OpenBeBox?

  2. Can't they see... by bjarvis354 · · Score: 5, Funny

    that OpenOS/2 is where its at?!

  3. Re:BeGone by c.emmertfoster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here, here!

    If Windows and the UNIXes are to survive at all, it will be among OS dilettante dabblers.

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    We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die!
  4. I thought they changed the name by Unoti · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's some neat things in that OS for sure. But I thought they renamed it to WasOS?

  5. Re:OS "ecosystem"? WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes.