To add more emphasis to the above here's a brief list of the licensed technology inside BeOS
Bitstream Font Rendering Engine
MP3 Codec
Intel Indeo Codec
Netpositive Web browser (as used in the Desktop product)
Opera Web browser (as used in BeIA)
OpenGL is a possiblitity too (because the original OpenGL contract was signed before SGI opensourced things)
There are probably a couple of others too that I'm missing.
Yes there are obvious replacements for much if not all of the above - but there is NO ONE to pull apart things to even remove the offending pieces and leave you with an empty non-compiling shell.
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Such an approach would mean not releasing either the Application Server or Interface Kit
Without which not much stuff works !
Besides I think even that much effort is beyond the people concerned
To add more emphasis to the above here's a brief list of the licensed technology inside BeOS
Bitstream Font Rendering Engine
MP3 Codec
Intel Indeo Codec
Netpositive Web browser (as used in the Desktop product)
Opera Web browser (as used in BeIA)
OpenGL is a possiblitity too (because the original OpenGL contract was signed before SGI opensourced things)
There are probably a couple of others too that I'm missing.
Yes there are obvious replacements for much if not all of the above - but there is NO ONE to pull apart things to even remove the offending pieces and leave you with an empty non-compiling shell.
Andrew
Ex Be