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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Member since:2005-07-06
"Amazing, being hated for having the audacity to decide to develop some code under something other than the GPL. How tolerant of you. GPL bigotry at its best."
As usual you only manage to talk utter nonsense.
*I* am not the open source community, I am only one member, and a tolerant one at that. I can even have a constructive dialogue with Microsoft (who by the way show much more common sense than you)
As to the petty "arguments", none of them came from me.
"Bigotry really does bring out irrational behavior, in any form it seems."
Ipse Dixit! Were you looking at yourself in the mirror when you said that?
Member since:Because you and other GPL fanboys disagree on the license used, you'll attack it with petty arguments, such as:
There's a lot of misquoting going on here, not one person has said that SkyOS MUST be stolen unix code because of those reasons. It isn't open source, so we can't check it, but in all likelihood there is at least some BSD code in there. I also don't know why you are assuming that the people questioning SkyOS are "GPL fanboys." I simply don't believe that the operating system was built from scratch.
As I said before, ask your leader to show us the tcp/ip stack, since it should be written from scratch if the rest of the operating system is.
As for the applications issue, it is quite telling that some programs have been renamed to give people the impression that they were developed by the SkyOS team. Obviously your leader wants to give as much credit as possible to SkyOS, and as least as possible to the people that created those applications. This is very telling of his character, which should tell you that you should not simply trust his word that the operating system is built from scratch. As I stated before, I'm going with what is probable, you're going with the word of someone who charges $30 for a beta.
Member since:2005-06-30
...it is quite telling that some programs have been renamed to give people the impression that they were developed by the SkyOS team.
You mean like:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Nvu
Bash
Quake I
Quake II
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Gaim
Gimp
FooBillard
LBreakOut 2
Blender
Abiword
Bochs
dotGNU
None of these apps have we claimed to have written, nor have we attempted to "re-brand" them. We have no interest in re-naming any of these applications; quite the opposite, most of these are well-known applications, and the fact that they are available for SkyOS is an advertisement for SkyOS, that many popular applications are available for the platform.
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Like it or not you are disliked by the open source community, who are by far the majority of people who care about alternative OSes.
Amazing, being hated for having the audacity to decide to develop some code under something other than the GPL. How tolerant of you. GPL bigotry at its best.
So now we know the source of the animus against SkyOS. Because you and other GPL fanboys disagree on the license used, you'll attack it with petty arguments, such as:
1) It uses the Crystal icons, SkyOS must be stolen unix code.
2) It runs Bash and other open source apps, SkyOS must be stolen unix code.
3) Quake2 and videolan player have been ported to it, SkyOS must be stolen unix code.
Bigotry really does bring out irrational behavior, in any form it seems.