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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."

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  1. Re:Please give us Firebird first by Bo+Diddly+Squat · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    You mean: "Who cares about this open source project I don't like. How about working on a project I do like ?"

    That's the fun with hobby projects. Programmers work in their spare time on what they like and see as worth doing.

    I like BeOS and I help out with an open source project for it. Would I work on another project that you think requires more support ? Only if it's fun. It's my free time and I don't get paid for it, after all.

  2. Re:Please give us Firebird first by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The dimensions of the "Who cares..." question include, but are not limited to:

    license

    language

    audience

    scope

    For a fact, if all of the Open Source intellect converged on a One True (Relatively Small Set Of) Answer(s) to the above bullets, it would arguable be a Good Thing, but figure the odds.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. Re:Please give us Firebird first by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's the betting the AC has never contributed to any open source project? For that matter, neither have, but I don't bitch about what other people want to spend their spare time on.

  4. Apple is dying by n1ywb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry. Too many people are saying that OBOS is a waste. I just had to throw in another short-sighted knee-jerk reaction.

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    -73, de n1ywb
    www.n1ywb.com