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>I'm reading here on http://www.pcworld.no that Palm has recently bought Be
>corporation for 11 million dollars. This means that the BeOS functionality
>will be integrated into PalmOS and any future development on BeOS will
>stop!!! This will obviously have nasty consequences for the BeOS port.
>
>I don't think that anything should change in the CVS repository and in any
>pre-4.0 WIP releases, but dropping some incomplete or otherwise unmaintained
>ports from allegro in the 4.0 release might be a thing we should do. I was
>thinking these should be released in a separate package. IIRC Peter said
>something simmilar but [AD] isn't archieved so I can't check. A penny for
>your hearing your point of view George?
Yes, those are really sad news... All the BeOS users can do as by now is to
wait until Palm says something about it; Palm itself has just discovered the
underground BeOS community and said it may even consider BeOS for the future.
BeOS users and all of you are invited to sign up the petitions at the
following addresses:
http://www.petitiononline.com/savebeos/
http://beserved.teldar.com/petition.asp
http://206.231.159.58/save/
The last one is probably the most important as Palm directly asked for it.
IMO a possible way for BeOS to survive would be if Palm decides to license it
to a third party company... Kinda like what happened to OS/2. Let's hope, as
BeOS is a really good piece of software!
About the BeOS Allegro port: I'm now using BeOS as my primary OS (writing
this from there), and there have been a lot of changes to the port lately -
guess you never tried it before, as it is already completed and fully working
(maybe there are some minor things left)... Probably WIP 3.9.38 will have
more changes on the BeOS port like it never had before, so you really can't
say it is unmaintained =)
It should be clear now that I'm strongly against separating the BeOS port
from the official Allegro 4 release. It would be a shame!
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Angelo Mottola
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