Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Aug 2004 21:07 UTC
Haiku (OpenBeOS)'s third birthday was a few days ago. While some BeOS parts have been successfully re-implemented so far, these were mostly the 'trivial' parts: screensaver kit, printing kit etc. Read more for a mini-editorial.
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> You are doing the same mistake as the Linux zealots do.
> "Journalists" don't code, they critisize and REVIEW. That's
> what I do, I have no plans on helping Haiku or anyone else.
> But I do have plans to REVIEW any and each one of these
> wannabe OSes.
I saw no review there. And the word you want is "critique" - 'to criticize' has negative connotations so I assume you meant the first.
Anyway...
That was an "editorial" eh? It was an opinionated diatribe that really made some points that were complete rubbish - like the Aethos/SkyOS comparisons. Notably, SkyOS only just became "usable" - previous iterations were absolute trash when compared to the leading OSes like you seem fond of doing.
A good editorial is objective. That was anything but objective, making it effectively an opinionated troll. Even the comments on supporting Zeta aren't really contextually accurate. Why would people buy Zeta when they only used the free version of BeOS? People are cheap, especially when our money is not flowing freely. I only pay for stuff that warrants it's price tag - and Zeta does not come close IMHO or evidently that of many others. Zeta is not like R5, it's not competitive and it is unstable, insecure, and buggy. At least Be Inc could argue their product was the best at the time they got sucker punched over OEM contracts. Zeta has a long way to go, a long long way to go. And then it'll only get harder without access to the underlying BeOS source.
Haiku may take years, but it'll get there thanks to the dedication of it's developers. And waiting for Haiku is no excuse not to support Zeta when it's ready. But is Zeta ready? No. I'm sure it'll get full community support when it is. It's not like the hardcore BeOS community is cheap, unlike us freebie onlookers.