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Now, image how the world could be a bit better if BeOS was open source.

• bluepizza 5y ago
  I heard rumors that there were several areas of the original BeOS code that were hackish and problematic, and that Haiku being a clean break is actually a good thing. Will not be able to give you a reference to that, but hoping someone familiar with the situation might confirm/disprove this for us.
• yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  Hard to say without knowing about its code quality. Haiku is quite good, and it might be better off for not starting with legacy code (I'm particularly thinking of working with modern GCC). Or maybe starting from a fully implemented system would have allowed for much faster progress. Can't tell from here.
  • laumars 5y ago
    There was a fork of BeOS floating about which was based on BeOS source: Zeta. Unfortunately the company behind it (originally YellowTab, later Magnussoft) couldn’t prove they had any rights to the code.
    • exikyut 5y ago
      How'd they get at it in the first place?
      • laumars 5y ago
        Good point. I honest don’t know / can’t remember.