Gassee dampens open-source BeOS hopes

The CEO of Be Inc., Jean Louis Gassee, discouraged those who had hoped he would put the innovative Be operating system into the open-source community in an interview with Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News. In the interview, Gassee questions whether his shareholders would benefit from such a move and mentions that some parts of the OS are licensed from other sources, complicating the process of making the software open-source. He also repeated charges that Microsoft Corp. used its influence to keep Be out of computers.

The interview is at siliconvalley.com. A background article is at zdnn.com.