Gobe

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Just as a quick update to myself, since I am way out of the loop now. What happend with Gobe.
They say they are open sourceing, then find out they can’t and then they fall of the face of the earth. Is Gobe no more? What happend and what is up?

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Gobe opensourcing ??? Never heard of such a thing …
I think Gobe is loosing lots of money or at least in not earning a lot, since they do not release any update since a while now.

But no, no project to opensource Gobe, and did you hear about the little scratch between Gobe and yellowTab ???

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Gobe are:
Still around
Selling on Windows, through CompUSA, colleges, etc
Being used in schools in Portland
Suing YT for piracy
Hiring developers.

They’re gone from BeOS, probably forever.

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no forever, cause if one day a little more business is made in the BeOS community, they would be back for sure !

I have sent them an email a couple of months ago … they told me that if someone was thinking that there is a market of minimum 1 million $ in this community for Gobe, so i would be interessting to port v3 and others … if not, and like they are actually thinking, so there is no way to hope a BeOS build of Gobe …

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beosfrance wrote:
Gobe opensourcing ????? Never heard of such a thing ... I think Gobe is loosing lots of money or at least in not earning a lot, since they do not release any update since a while now.

But no, no project to opensource Gobe, and did you hear about the little scratch between Gobe and yellowTab ???

beosfrance, if you check a while back (a year or more) there was even once an announcement by BeUnited that GoBE 3.0 would be open source and ported to BeOS. But it was announced some time ago that this would not happen.

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MYOB wrote:
Suing YT for piracy

What info do you have to back this up?

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koki wrote:
MYOB wrote:
Suing YT for piracy

What info do you have to back this up?

Information provided to me by a source I’m not naming, as well sa Gobes public statements which were circulated widely, including on YT’s own website.

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Is this new information?

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ModeenF wrote:
Is this new information?

New timewise no, I heard about it ages ago.

New as in unknown about - I presume other people in a position to know about it know it. That position being former or current news site editors who specifically asked.