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Haiku Tech Talk at Google a Success
mikesum writes "February 13 was Haiku's big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, who not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project. It was great to have JLG's presence, as well as that of the several ex-Be engineers who showed up for the talk. We were also glad to see Java for BeOS developer Andrew Bachman join us for this special event. Have a look at the pictures taken during the presentation, as well as the video of the event."
Jean Louis Gassée
who joined us at Google and
gave words of support
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Might be good OS
But with only twelve users
Grim future ahead.
Google learns today
new OS will thrill us all
Slashdotters rejoice
The original generic sig.
I wanted to go against the grain.
There once was a man most true
Who came to talk in Haiku
His OS was dead
The workers felt dread
Their business might soon be too
Typical Slashdot
Mention haikus and you all
Become smartasses
-David
Cannot connect to server
No pictures to see
-David
It's example like this I want to give to all who say "Meh ! I don't need my drivers to be opensource, nVidia's drivers for linux are good enough".
Yeah. And how are you going to port them to Haiku ? nVidia has not interests in supporting additional OS that don't even have 1% market share. (It's already incredible that they support BSD, Solaris and 2 Linux platforms) But if nouveau project succeeds, Haiku people will have a nice opensource code base from which to adapt a driver. And without good hardware support, nice systems like haiku won't get widespread use.
I wish a lot of luck to Haiku, and hope they'll find a way to survive in the difficult place where companies only focus on the 1-2 most popular platforms, and refuse to help the others.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Obligatory:
But In Soviet Russia
Haiku Uses You
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
There you go again,
not writing witty haikus.
Insensitive clod!
Failing haiku form /.
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