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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. time ? by selderrr · · Score: 2, Redundant

    while I applaud the efforts to re-write beos, I wonder where these guys find the time to do so ! And even more : the funding, as I assume they still need $ to feed their families.

    I've done some small-scale OS projects, and even those took a serious bite out of my spare time, up to a level where I was getting sloppy in my day-time job... I could not, in any way, manage such a huge project unless some company paid me for it. (and even then i'd probably wouldn't have the skills, but thats another matter)

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  2. "just a matter of time" by jbellis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you don't get it, do you? even after I spelled out for you that they _already_ don't have enough developer time on the kernel.

    even on large projects, developer time is a finite resource. much more so for marginal projects like this one.

  3. Advantages? by spectrokid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Sure BEOS has some neat tricks (don't they all?). But what features does it have that are (as good as) impossible to port to Linux?

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