BeUnited and OpenBeOS are partner organizations that sprung forth from the enthusiastic developer community. They are working to recreate BeOS using an open source approach. BeOS has a well documented API and significant portions were opened up in the past. Creating a binary compatable release will allow all the many original apps for BeOS to be run. It also allows app developers to know that they can develop and release commercial apps today and that some company cannot take control away from them.