Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Jul 2006 17:15 UTC, submitted by Lakedaemon
A set of major changes in SkyOS is now complete. The entire GUI subsystem was rewritten to support desktop composing including flicker free drawing, double buffering, full alpha transparency, plugable composing effects, etc. Secondly, PE support has been dropped completely, and all libraries, applications, drivers, and the kernel are now ELF binaries. Thirdly, everything is now compiled with GCC 4.1.1 and the latest binutils. And last, but personally definitely not least: SkyOS now has support for BeOS people files. Other than the above, a lot of bugs were fixed as well.
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2005-07-06
Maybe once SkyOS gets critical mass, Robert might opensource it; right now, the only way to make money, given the very small user base, is to keep it closed source; I'm sure once there are 100,000 users, and 10% of them paying $10 per release, he'll cover his costs, but until such a day occurs, I don't see it being opensource.
As for Roberts contribution; as far as I see it, he is giving back in terms of the port to SkyOS of the compiler, the changes and bug fixes he probably needed to make etc. Giving back to the community isn't always adding new features.