A bit of good news after this past week. ACCESS Co., current owner of the BeOS IP, has made available under a Creative Commons license, both the BeBook and the Be Newsletters archive, thus responding favourably to Haiku's requests on this matter. This will help Haiku by making available valuable technical documents to the developers. Haiku will make both available from their site and will integrate them, which means they'll be searchable from its site.

David "Lefty" Schlesinger from ACCESS Co. had this to say: "ACCESS is very pleased to be able to support the Haiku project by making these documents more widely available to interested developers". A very nice move (both useful and good PR) from ACCESS, and should be an example to other companies who refuse to open-source some of their IP, especially driver specs.