Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Mar 2009 23:21 UTC
At the end of January this year, I wrote a rather harsh, but honest article on the state of SkyOS. I was very worried that the closed-source operating system, for which users have to pay in order to beta test it, would never reach a final version, something that was promised to the people paying the price. This feeling was strengthened by a lack of updates; we were five months without news, six months without a release, and 8 months without a changelog update. My article got the ball rolling, but now that we're five weeks down the road, is that ball still rolling?
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2005-07-27
I´m surprised that people here has this Unsatisfied Customer attitude. I expected people in 'geekland' to understand that they were not buying an appliance from a multinational but instead chipping in to help in the development of a very interesting project, something that hopefully come out very well, but also could end up badly.
Yeah, apparently he was so exited and sure about the project that he worded it to sound like the great company behind the product that he was dreaming about, and promissed some things he can't deliver right now.
But, really, can you blame him for that? Didn't you realize that was a man's dream and you were helping him about it and getting something in return? (you got the betas at the very least). Did you really spend the money thinking there was *no way* the project stalled at some point?
If demanding some "consumers rights" is your way to push him to continue, it's unlikely to work... more likely the message you are sending is "it'll be much worse if you ever release a Gold version".
We should be sorry if the project goes down, but not too sorry for a few bucks spent on a worthy dream.
note: I have no relation with SkyOS, I followed the news about it, but never tried it other than some beta about 6 years ago when they were freely available.
note 2: hope nothing of this sounds harsh against anyone, it's just the best I can do with my english knowledge...