An Interview with Haiku | Linux Today

An Interview with Haiku

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 8, 2008

[ Thanks to Ilan
Rabinovitch
for this link. ]

“Gareth: Was that before or after the name switch from OpenBeOS
to Haiku?

“Kokito: The project started as OpenBeos. The change to Haiku
was in 2004.

“BGA: I am still a developer in the project (although with real
life taking most of my time).

“Kokito: I have been involved in the Haiku project since 2006,
mainly in the area of marketing. communications. I worked mainly on
the (new) website, and organizing events like the Google Tech Talk
last year, SCALE (of course!), Kansai Open Source in Japan, etc.
The new name was officially announced at the first WalterCon (the
Haiku conference), held in Ohio, sometime in August of that
year…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

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