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What can I say. That was very, very harsh.

Yes, Haiku is not usable. But a lot of work has been done, and continues to be done. The efforts of the existing developers are quite amazing at times. Their problem is the team is not growing at all though, so all they can do is continue to work on their goals.

Your talk of Aethos and SkyOS is laughable. Their goals and approach were completely different. They implemented very few features first and the evolved their OSes from there. This has lead to future problems where parts must be re-evaluated and rewritten.

Haiku was designed to be a BeOS5 implementation. Therefore it has the design of a BeOS5 implementation. That's not a few easy features, or a small tightly-coupled bit of code. It's a large, well-engineered, non-trivial piece of software engineering that will take 10s of, if not 100s of, man years to create. Just look at the resources Be Inc put into R5. Whilst much of that is fortunately inherited by Haiku in terms of R&D, it is not an easy thing to reproduce and you are certainly unfair in your assertions.

The problem with users is they expect too much, often the impossible, because their perspective is a really narrow and (in this case) unfair one. Yes, Eugenia, you are a user. And one who is letting her emotions cloud her judgement in this instance.

Haiku has a future, even if it's just as a niche OS. The efforts of the few core team members ensures that. 2 millions lines of code is not a failure. It's a giant leap towards achieving a goal that is not as far away as you say. The app server, from what I read on the frontpage, is nearly there. The kernel is working even if it's imperfect. Perhaps a bit more involvement might be more helpful for Haiku rather than smart alec cheap shots through your precious OSNews. This was not news, it was a low-down-dirty TROLL.