Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jun 2004 06:22 UTC
PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.
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I think BeOS has got its good name because the developers had point to reach the hearts of the users. If you start to create a thing with:
Because also opensource projects have their problems, of time (we've to work to live, for gain MONEY), people avaiable to spend their free time, money for books, hardware, connections, etc.
1) clear ideas
2) true love of what are you doing
3) good skills and people to do it
Something of great should happen. I think many products (OSs) starts with good ideas and purposes but there's so much work to do that the quality and completeness(arrive to do the same things planned at the start) level degrade with the time.
Be has showed us that there's the possibility to do great things even without an MS dev squadron. An OS that's is not perfect but that after 10 years is again in the heart of the most of the people that have used/are using it.
Bad is that in a world like this one we are living, there's a lot more space of moneys that for good projects. The "free" competion of the market kills this and that company without regret. There's not enough space for grown. And this is one of things i most hate.
In a better world people (the community) would not to lose a valid product, a good team of developers, a good set of ideas and future things planned. We are no talking about food companies (that are however important) but of ones that research, invent hard things, intellectual things that after ARE USED by people, they are not only geek things, or a drawing to put on a wall and watch. Doesnt help this but choosing the way of the dollars it's like hurting ourselves.
It's the system that need a change, not only some corrections, i think
Let's hope that Be has marked good the way to follow to evolve BeOS into a modern OS, in its new forms.