After a great deal of interest from the community, we have decided to officially open the "SkyOS Code Ransom". In a nutshell, the SkyOS Code Ransom is a system to encourage developers to port various software packages to SkyOS, as well as a way to reward them for their efforts. Depending on how successful and how much interest there is in the "SkyOS Code Ransom", we may expand this feature of the website a great deal more in the future.
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And it is a Unix kernel because someone else who has never used (programmed for) SkyOS says so?
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You guys really crack me up. It seems that very few SkyOS supporters actually know what goes into an operating system. I've already mentioned many times that freeBSD has 1.2 million lines of code, but that seems to have no effect.
Here's how we can settle this:
Have the miracle worker release the tcp/ip stack. It won't make a difference to the future of SkyOS, and we can see his miraculous coding abilities. Or more likely we can see something that looks just like the BSD stack.
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LOL, Robert disappears into the dungeon and magically produces the kernel by himself.
Yes, and he did so for 8 years.
It seems like the extent of your evidence consists of the fact that this would be impossible simply because it seems hard to you. Would that be an accurate statement?
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Yes, and he did so for 8 years.
It seems like the extent of your evidence consists of the fact that this would be impossible simply because it seems hard to you. Would that be an accurate statement?
Does it seem hard to me? Hmmmmm let's see here.....
The bsd kernel is 1.2 million lines of code.
The linux 2.6 kernel is 5.6 million lines of code.
Do I think it would be difficult for a single person to create from scratch a kernel with similar functionality? Yes, yes I do.
I think the fact that your miracle worker is paying people to port software for his os should tell you something. Porting software should be easy for someone who wrote the entire kernel.
Look you're in over your head, and so is your almighty leader. He's a liar, and a lousy one at that. I hope at least that you're getting a percentage of those $30 beta fees.
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> LOL, Robert disappears into the dungeon and
> magically produces the kernel by himself.
Anyone can code a kernel given enough time; SkyOS has been in development for *years*. If you're a gifted programmer then you can produce quite impressive results. So, yes, I imagine he does disappear into the dungeon and produce kernel code.
> It may seem like a *nix kernel
I'm curious - how can you tell what the kernel looks like? The screenshots on the website? The fact that it runs bash doesn't mean anything - I've had bash running cheerfully on Windows 98.
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But please stop posting that you have definitive evidence that GPL/LGPL code is being used in a way that violates those respective licenses. Unless you are willing to present your evidence, that is libel.
You can't expect people to provide evidence when the beta is $30. I will call bs when I see it and I see quite a bit at that website. Here's a little gem I found in the forums:
By "you guys" you mean "Robert". He's the miracle worker who wrote the entire kernel from scratch using C and ASM. We don't have any emuation software planned, but a platform emulator such as VMWare might not be such a bad idea eventually.
LOL, Robert disappears into the dungeon and magically produces the kernel by himself. It may seem like a *nix kernel, but it's not because he says so. Too funny.