Todd wrote recently on the ex-be mailing list:
February 27th, 2003
Todd wrote recently on the ex-be mailing
list:
Eric S. Raymond has a new book called The Art Of Unix
Programming in draft.
In a section comparing other OSes to Unix (for some definition of
“Unix”), he gives a survey
of BeOS that is quite complimentary, bordering on wistful. His only
comment regarding BeOS’s non-open-sourceness is the following:“Entry barriers to BeOS development were low; though the
operating system was proprietary, development tools were inexpensive and
full documentation was readily available.”