OSNews

who all knows both that these OSs exist and have knowledge there is a poll on a site called OSnews.

Spreading the word can't hurt OSnews regardless of who votes for what OS, and the results of the poll, at best will only help OSnews to better determine who is next on teh list of doing stories for.... till the next poll.

Seeing the score I do, currently putting SkyOS a good bit in the lead only inspires me to go and find out more about SkyOS, and its license. So of course an article on SkyOS by OSnews would be something I'd likely read as of current.

The phrase "greatest potential Hobbist OS" is something of a trick phrase, for if one of these is to reach the highest Hobbist potential.... well what would that be?

Currently there is only one "system" I consider as a high potential hobbist system, and that is the C=One, for it will truely be hobbist that finally are allowed to explore the programming of FPGAs... and the wonders of what will they come up with that will then be turned into technology advancement in commercial systems.... Systems that reconfigure on the fly..

As to the line or list of OSs this poll and thread is about, AROS, a system and development I support, what does it matter to me that it is currently low in a poll of greatest hobbist potential where the greatest hobbist OS or system to date (GNU/Linux) has reached thru the spectrum all the way to the other end of commercial software, but not over the line of trusted computing illusion and wrongful manipulations of consumers....... to not be listed?

What does it mater to me? Perhaps the poll is saying AROS doesn't have the greatest hobbist potential of those listed, because it has more than just that....????

I suppose the same could be said about the others as well, but there is one things for sure, and that is where licenses of these different OS are not in such conflict with each other to prevent cross breeding..... where the really smart OS come from and reinvention is decreased so there is more time for genuine innovation.