YellowTAB

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yellowTAB is a German software firm that produces an operating system based on BeOS 5.1.0. They have not 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 have is legal, at least in Germany. Their product is sold as "yellowTAB ZETA".

The company's offices are in Mannheim, and its corporate motto is Assume The Power.

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 driver for integration into the Haiku source tree where further development will take place (both yellowTAB and Haiku developers collaborate on Intel Extreme Graphics driver development).

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 [link]. However, the firm has transferred development and support of ZETA to a third-party, Magnussoft.

External links

[yellowTAB] - official site

BeOS ()
Companies:	Be Inc. > Gobe Software \| yellowTAB
Computers:	BeBox > Sony eVilla
Operating systems:	BeOS > BeIA \| Haiku \| yellowTAB ZETA

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