Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 07:36 UTC
As a programmer and manager of embedded software products for a living, I think that operating system programming is so much fun that it will eventually be outlawed. I've previously published two articles on OSNews, So, you want to write
an operating system and Climbing
the kernel mountain, and tried to summarize my experience in designing operating system kernels as well as technical traps that can be easily avoided.
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I appreciate the author's comments, but the article is definitely looking at the commercial aspect. From that point of view I'd agree that it makes very little sense to write a kernel from scratch.
However there are plenty of folks out there just writing an OS for the hell of it. Not for fame, not for delusions of being the next Gates, just because they find it a fun way to spend their free-time. If we're going to allow the philatelists to pursue their hobby then why deride the efforts of the hobby OS-devers?