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BeOS IS alive ;)
AdmiralAK:
lol...
Nothing is free, even linux. SuSE only gives out an evaluation of its product as a free download, Lindows does not give out ANY free trial, you have to buy it.
Both BeOS Max and BeOS DevEd are based on the Personal Edition of BeOS which was Free, therefore these guys have no right to sell their product, it MUST be free! Also this is the way BeOS looked since its inception in 97 ;) -- what it looks like today has no bearing, it still kicks arse
As for Zeta, people can work on it, it is not free, it will cost something, these guys have not used any BeOS code as far as I know (it would be illegal to do so), and they have invested a lot of time and effort to make an OS that looks like, behaves like, and is a sucessor to BeOS, and can run all BeOS apps without any modification, that is qute a feat. If you do not like it tough
Admiral
flap:
quote:Originally posted by devlkore:
What does that mean exactly?
Would you rather everything was a linux?
(that's not an assumption, just a question)
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He means proprietary.
And no, we wouldn't prefer that everything was a linux, but rather that everything was Free.
quote:Nothing is free, even linux. SuSE only gives out an evaluation of its product as a free download, Lindows does not give out ANY free trial
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Lindows isn't free software and doesn't claim to be, and Suse similarly contains non-free software. Other distros like Red Hat, Debian etc. are free - both in terms of cost, (to which I believe you are referring), and freedom (which is more important.)
slave:
quote:lol...
Nothing is free, even linux.
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Do you work for Microsoft?
AdmiralAK:
hahahaha... heck no... I need to take a bath now just for the implication lol
I am an avid mac user actually under which I have Rhapsody, Nextstep, openstep, OS/2, qnx, amigaOS, GEM, linux, and BeOS running under emulation in MacOS X
pkd_lives:
quote:Originally posted by Admiral:
Nothing is free, even linux. SuSE only gives out an evaluation of its product as a free download, Lindows does not give out ANY free trial, you have to buy it.
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Sorry to blow your bubble, SuSE does give out it's software free it does not give .iso out, you have to perform a live install, and yes it does use proprietary code, from codeweavers if I remeber correctly, which might explain why it's not what I use. Lindows should be providing all code derived from it's use of Debian as its linux base, if the proprietary code is based on GPLd code than it is breaking the terms of it's license. Lindows is a software package that sits on top of a Linux distro., it appears. If this is the case they are fine, but I will not be using it any time.
When people talk about free round here they generally mean free as in open source (and preferably GPLd). That is most peoples guide line. Personally I will not use any proprietary code because there is nothing it can do, that I need, that can't be done on an open source Operating System. So in that respect any work on BeOS is a total waste of time.
That is not to decry the skills and work of those involved with the project, but I don't need another proprietary Operating System. Now if it came out as Open source under a good Open Source license, then that would change the picture considerably. But I no longer use programs, Operating Systems and indeed any form of software that is not at the very least Open source in its entirety, meaning all the source is available. It is the major reason I have not brought a MAC yet, until they go completly OSS on their OS I'm not interested (oh and they have to remove all the Microsoft crap, and M$ can have no payment of money or services from Mac for any reason). There is no need. no requirement to use closed source software. And as it is a major security risk, and no closed source company meets my basic requirements for patching bugs, I cannot understand why anyone still uses it.
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