yellowTAB
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yellowTAB was a German software firm that produced an operating system called ZETA based on BeOS 5.1.0. They never publicly confirmed that they have the BeOS source code or what their licensing agreement with BeOS's owners PalmSource is, but it is likely that whatever arrangement they had was legal, at least in Germany. The company went insolvent and ceased trading in 2006. Their product was sold as "yellowTAB ZETA".
The company's offices were in Mannheim, and its corporate motto is Assume The Power. Following their closure, the OS was taken over by magnussoft, who started selling it as "magnussoft ZETA".
yellowTAB has come under some criticism from the BeOS userbase, who claim that the company does not give back what it takes from the Haiku project and other open source BeOS projects. In many cases, open source programmers have recreated yellowTAB's extensions to BeOS, most notably their SVG graphics extensions to OpenTracker. However, yellowTAB's actions to date have not violated the BSD/MIT licences under which most open source BeOS projects exist.
In March 2006, yellowTAB donated their "Intel Extreme" driver to one of the Haiku developers for integration into the Haiku source tree where further development was to take place. Both yellowTAB and Haiku developers were to collaborate on Intel Extreme Graphics driver development, but it should be noted that to date this code has not yet been committed to the repository.
In April 2006, insolvency protection proceedings were filed for the company, although employees denied that it was actually filed by the company, suggesting potential malicious intent [1]. However, the firm has transferred development and support of ZETA to a third-party, magnussoft.
As of November 24, 2006 yellowTAB has discontinued public access to their web site.
[edit] External links
- yellowTAB - official site
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