
SkyOS has always been criticised for the fact that you have to pay for it in order to beta test it. I personally never saw a problem with this construction, especially since the price included a full copy of SkyOS
5 (they dropped the five) once it was completed. However, as of late, it has become increasingly clear that there may never be anything like a final version - or another test release for that matter.
Update: In the comments,
Robert Szeleney explained the current SkyOS situation in more detail. For future readers who find this article via a search engine, I've attached Robert's comment to the actual story for completeness' sake. The reply can
also be found on the SkyOS website.
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2006-01-10
- Open source SkyOS
- Make SkyOS available for free
- Specialize on a yet to define niche
- Stop SkyOS development
For me, only an OpenSource OS is acceptable.
There existing already enough closed-source OperatingSystems like Windows and MacOSX (where the kernel is OpenSource, but the needed rest like the NextStep port ans so are not).
Make it OpenSource. If there are people interested in it, they will create driver and more for it.
But it's not a guarantee. The development of AtheOS goes also faster with the author of AtheOS, then today the development of the AtheOS-clone Syllable with the Syllable community.
But making SkyOS OpenSource is the step, which SkyOS most help.