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Original BeOS Developer Now at Trolltech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shakeups-and-new-blood dept.

UltimaGuy writes "Benoit Schillings, co-creator of the Be operating system and former CTO of Openwave, has been appointed to the newly created position of chief technology officer (CTO) at Trolltech. In the meantime, Trolltech has also joined the new mobile OSDL initiative."

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  1. A question on dual licensing by teslatug · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does Trolltech incorporate GPL-ed contributions into their commercial release? If yes, what gives them the right to re-license those contributions under a non-GPL license? Else, what do they get out of open sourcing their software other than publicity?

  2. I wish by oliverthered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wish I could select uneditable text (like error messages!)
    I wish the QT supported full reflection and serialization so that drag and drop could be fully intergated in KDE.
    I wish they would make QT thread safe so that when web plugins and konquerer tabs crashed they didn't take all my konqueror windows with
    them.

    and finally I wish that new guy would read my comment.

    --
    thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  3. In other Be-related news... by doorbot.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...HaikuOS has a paid developer for a few weeks.

    Axel's development blog is available, as is the story on OSNews where I found the link.

    Apparently, Haiku should have a bootable CD image soon.

  4. Benaphores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Does this mean he's going to create bad, non-functioning printer GUIs and name things like 'benaphore' for TrollTech too?

    Out of all of the people that presented at the various Be Dev Conferences, he's the one that was the least impressive. He seemed to be cut from the same cloth as JLG when it came to attitude, with nothing to really back it up.

  5. Re:What was BeOS really like? by dlockamy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hmm, where to start?

    As far as soft real time? Back in the day I ran Be on a P2 350 2xx Megs ram. I could easily play 10-20 mp3s at one time with all playing smoothly while I ran several other programs. Sure there was no reason to do that, but it looked cool. Same goes for video. I remember the cool thing at one time was to play 50 or so copies of the Phantom Menace trailor.
    You really could run the full system to 100% and still have damn good GUI responce. There's still no system (that I've found) that runs as smooth as Be did in 1998.

    The great thing about programming was that the threading was to embedded in the system that you didn't know you where even using it. Take some time to browse the BeBook. It was a great api.