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This article covers the history of Haiku, a free, open-source operating system. ==Beginnings== The development project began as "OpenBeOS" in 2001 after Palm, Inc. bought Be Inc. and discontinued BeOS, leaving BeOS users without a viable upgrade path and BeOS developers with programs stranded on an unsupported platform. OpenBeOS differed from several other contemporary projects aiming to continue BeOS. For example, Cosmoe and BlueEyedOS (both of which remain incomplete and appear to be inactive at this time) took an existing Linux or BSD kernel and re-implemented Be's APIs on top of it; this broke binary code compatibility with BeOS R5 and significantly deviated from the original design. By contrast, OpenBeOS planned an almost complete rewrite of the system, maintaining binary and source code compatibility. This should allow any existing BeOS R5 programs to run on the new system without being recompiled. A first release of OpenBeOS was made in 2002.〔BeGroovy: (OpenBeOS First Release )〕 That release was no stand-alone operating system, instead it was a community-created update for BeOS 5.0.3 that contained open source replacements for a few BeOS components. In 2004 a new project name was chosen in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks.〔OSNews: (OpenBeOS Becomes Haiku )〕 The name was influenced by an official community vote, decided by project leaders and revealed at that year's WalterCon. The name "Haiku" intends to reflect the elegance and simplicity that attracted many to the BeOS platform, and is also a direct reference to the distinctive haiku error messages found in NetPositive, the default BeOS web browser, and many other Be applications. (Haiku, Inc. ), a non-profit organization based in Rochester, New York, was founded in 2003 by former project leader Michael Phipps to support the project and the development of the Haiku operating system. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Haiku (operating system)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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