Star Users Update AtheOS, But Still No Word from its Founder
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 12th Jul 2002 23:51 UTC
Syllable, AtheOS Reportedly, Kurt Skauen hasn't work on AtheOS for the last 9 months, as he currently taking some long vacations away from his pet project. All this time, a lot of dissapointments have been expressed in the (dying) mailing list about the future of AtheOS, already a (semi-)fork has occured with Cosmoe, but still no word from Kurt if or when he will start working on AtheOS again. Update: It seems that a complete fork has already happen, created by some of the main third party AtheOS developers.
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Fork (ew...I said that word)
by JDub on Sat 13th Jul 2002 02:37 UTC

My opinion is that if someone doesn't like what's happening, they can fork it and continue as they like. Yes, it is Kurt's baby, but I think after a certain period of time without feeding the other developers and users it's ok to fork a project. Kurts done a fantastic job so far with the core parts and it'd be a shame to continue without his involvement. But eventually, what can you do? You can either wait...and wait...and wait or you can shut-up and do something. It's GPL'd so it's free to take and improve if you want.

My $0.02