Petition to Make BeOS Open-Source

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The goal of this petition is to convince Be Incorporated (www.be.com) to release its Be Operating System (BeOS) in an open-source form. The Be Operating System is an excellent one, and one that deserves to be updated by its community of devoted developers (a la the Linux community). Since the availability of BeOS is scarce, and its future uncertain, this course of action would be most beneficial to the future of BeOS and the BeOS community. Sign here if you think BeOS should be open-source!

1911 Signatures

  • Sean Gilbertson
  • John M. Brown
    • Comments
    • I think it would be better to do SOMETHING to make it more accessible, and this seems to be the best way.
  • Rusty Wagner
  • Shayne Sales
    • Comments
    • Free it!
  • fuzz
    • Comments
    • yay
  • eric a. drosnock
    • Comments
    • would love to see BeOS go opensource so that it is further developed (as it seems that Be has forgotted about it)
  • another*Wanker
    • Comments
    • waste not want
  • James Marr
    • Comments
    • BeOS is the best OS ever made. Don't let it slip into obscurity.
  • Joe Petrus
    • Comments
    • it'll be better in the end.
  • Linus Torvalds
  • Kevin Stow
    • Comments
    • I would appreciate it.
  • Tomas Vacek
    • Comments
    • BeOS is great OS !!!
  • Martin Smith
    • Comments
    • The only chance for BeOS to survive
  • Ilmari Siiteri
    • Comments
    • BeOS is technically superior OS compared to many of it's competitors, and now that Be inc doesn't seem to keep it up to date, it would be really shame to let this great OS die.
  • Andrew Schweitzer
    • Comments
    • i think this is a good idea, even though i tried installing BeOS and running it and before it ever started up the first time, it said startup path not found halfway through loading..come on, i made a boot disk! stupid crap. see, if it was open source, this wouldnt have happened
  • Jeremy Bem
  • Koehnlein Udo
    • Comments
    • BeOS rulez!
  • Richard Crockett
    • Comments
    • I'll do anything to help keep BeOS alive! BeOS is friggen awesome. Lets try and keep it going.
  • Michael Brandon
    • Comments
    • Let BeOS live!
  • Robert C. Olsen, III
    • Comments
    • I purchased R5Pro
  • Dimitri RHODES
    • Comments
    • It's the only (and last) solution for you,BEOS !
  • Anton du Toit
    • Comments
    • Please keep this fantastic operating system alive, by any means necessary!
  • Roman Mikula
  • Cedric
    • Comments
    • I think it's the last solution to see evolution for BeOS
  • saule yvan
  • Dirard Mikdad
  • Sebastien
  • Steve
    • Comments
    • Good Beos
  • Siarzhuk Zharski
    • Comments
    • Give us The Hope, please ...
  • Degmar
  • Benoit
    • Comments
    • Please, don't let it die ! Et puis on pourra travailler sur une traduction complиte en franзais au passage ! ! !
  • F. Ghislain
  • Mark-Jan Bastian
    • Comments
    • It would be so bad if such a rich and clean OS as BeOS is not allowed to compete with Windows and Linux/FreeBSD anymore
  • cnpait
    • Comments
    • Dont forget beos community
  • Ludovic PIOT
    • Comments
    • even if it stay as commercial software, being Open-Source could be a warranty to developpers who invest in a BeOS developpement
  • Jean-Michel B.
  • Nathaniel Sylvain
  • Steffen Lorscheider
  • Bill Gates
    • Comments
    • get me the new opensourse enemy
  • Nimbus
    • Comments
    • Vivez B, Pensez Be, Soyez Be {:-)
  • Eugene Kirilenko
    • Comments
    • BeOS really need it
  • Levon Gevorkyan
    • Comments
    • BeOS should live!
  • Alexandr Budakvenko
    • Comments
    • Give Open source !!!!!
  • Donovan (Deej) Schulteis
    • Comments
    • Or even just "license" the source to some other party so that development under NDA could continue past Be, Inc.'s lifespan.
  • Laurent Jean-Rigaud
  • Paolo
  • Ron Brown
    • Comments
    • Throw us a BONE!!! :)
  • Thomas Sempf
  • Eric Petit
    • Comments
    • BeOS is not dead...
  • Rob Judd
    • Comments
    • I'd be happy if Be, Inc. even retained rights to the changes, I just want to get on with it.