Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 26th Aug 2005 22:57 UTC, submitted by Matt Turner
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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I don't know what he has written by himself and what he hasn't, but you are right on the main point:
IT.IS.IMPOSSIBLE.FOR.ONE.MAN.TO.WRITE.A.MODERN.OS.ON.HIS.OWN.
Unless of course it is a toy OS, which seems to be the case with SkyOS.
Heck, not even the mighty M$ is able to write a decent OS, with their billions and thousands of developers.
And before somebody else says it, no, GNU/Linux isn't perfect either.
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I think it's been said somewhere else in this thread that while the OS and kernel and underlying critical system functions (and graphical system?) were written by one guy, the programs sitting on top of it weren't. Heck, they've got Firefox, Everaldo's Krystal Icon set and BASH... but those are programs running ON an operating system.
Maybe he didn't write his own console shell because
1.) it wasn't important to him to have his own
2.) BASH was available and easy to port
3.) He wanted a familiar interface to make it easier for people to try the system?
That said, it does seem like he's an amazing programmer to have written the kernel and graphics API and so on by himself, albeit over 8 years...
Obviously there is some original code, but the underlying system is unix based. He's taking open source programs, calling them "Sky-whatever" and then expects $30 for the beta.
So at least we agree that he's using an icon set for KDE?
Well then this statement from the faq is false:
SkyOS is an operating system written from scratch
If it was truly written from scratch it would have original icons, among other things.
So we know that he borrows and renames software to give the impression that it is original, and we're supposed to believe that the stuff that we can't see was written entirely by him?