No, it's not Bill Gates, but rather the developer of the OSBOS Cosmoe. For those who do not know what Cosmoe is, the following introduction is for you. Cosmoe was one of the first OSBOS announced at beunited and was also the first OSBOS to successfully run the OpenTracker. It is, to this day, developed by a man called Bill Hayden. The big difference between Haiku and Cosmoe is that it runs on the Linux kernel and that it's using GPL as its license. Read on for the interview.
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Member since:2005-07-11
It's very hard for a non-Linux alternative OS project, especially the size of Haiku, to support precisely that vast amount of cheap, average PCs out there. A standardized and open enough gaming console which is likely to be made in large numbers, bought by "enough" people and stay the same (hardware-wise) 5-10 years (maybe?), is a godsend to such a small OS project.
If Haiku is ported, fully, the potential number of people with -exactly the right hardware- would take a huge leap.
I think you're reading too much into what I wrote. I don't expect Haiku on PS3 to kill anything. Not Windows, not Linux, not MacOS X. (Note the smiley.) I'm not into world domination. Haiku/PS3 does seem a nice fit though.
IIRC, you don't have to give up the games to run an alternative OS on the PS3, so I don't think it's naive at all to expect some smaller percentage of PS3 owners to at least try an alternative OS on the PS3.
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2005-07-06
Sooner or later Haiku will be ported to the Playstation 3...
This assumes that the PS3 will reach ubiquity and that all PS3 owners will want to run Haiku on top of it.
While I wouldn't oppose a future in which a decent OS rules the roost, I think you are a bit too optimistic.
Sony will have their work cut out for them, trying to stop the onslaught of the Xbox brethren. They are up against a formidable competitor and reaching ubiquity is almost ruled out.
The second assumption, that people who buy a PS3 will want to run an alternative OS with it, is naive. Most gamers will use the PS3 as a gaming machine.
Haiku on the PS3 is not the Windows killer you hope it to be. (To be just a little mean, it's not even a GNU/Linux killer).
Haiku needs to run on dirt cheap, run of the mill x86 boxes. Otherwise it will remain a small niche OS.