After several months, we're very proud to finally bring you the result of the OSNews Alternative OS Contest. It took us a while to publish them all, but we are done now. Read on for the results. 
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Member since:2005-07-06
I personally share your point of view, but programming is also a bit of work of art. Programming for programming's sake makes sense: it's fun, it is a learning experience, it makes you test and learn new programming techniques (that you can apply to useful programs later). I prefer to code with a pragmatic target, but I appreciate elegance and fun in programming, and I'd just like to be good enough to participate to the International Obfuscated C Contest.
In addition, more often than note "just-for-fun" projects have later became important for people. No one would have given a dime on a monolithic hobbish hacked Unix clone tightly tied to i386 architecture that was done just for fun by an IT student. But now I'm running Linux.
Member since:2006-05-09
I don't say that only the end user has to be the target of your work, but at the end of the chain, one end user will be at front of what you did (using an application that uses a library that uses another library that uses the library you have programmed).
If LoseThos does not have the vision to reach to the end user, his work will be useful for a tiny community of programmers.
Anyway, I hate the "I will not hear you, I do whatever I want" style of the owner of this proyect.
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2006-05-09
I do not understand your point of view.
I am a programmer and I like to program for the PEOPLE or for other programmers which will program for the PEOPLE.
Programmers doing programs just for programmers does not make sense.
If your Operating System is oriented for programmers... the people which program for your operating system, what orientation must have?