Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC, submitted by highwayman
"It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen off the wall and no amount of 'sudo' super glue can put his pieces back together again. I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community. Con - that champion of all things desktop centric - hung-up his keyboard this summer, the victim of an ideological rift within the Linux community." Update: And the first rebuttal appeared.
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RE: Help another Project
by sbergman27 on Wed 19th Sep 2007 17:27
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BeOS had much promise.
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The operative words are "had" and "promise". In the real world, Linux and MacOS X are vying for second place for desktop OSes. BeOS was never even in the running.
What are the chances, do you think, that Haiku will eclipse both Linux and MacOS X and become the number two player?
I'd estimate that it is roughly equivalent to the chance that the number of my grand prize winning ticket in the state lottery will just happen to match the serial number of my newly purchased copy of Duke Nukem Forever.
Edited 2007-09-19 17:28
RE[2]: Help another Project
by Soulbender on Thu 20th Sep 2007 03:39
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BeOS was never even in the running.
Well, it was almost in the running like 10 years ago or so. Too bad it then went the way of Commodore and made some disastrous management decisions (some would blame it on MS but those folks are delusional).
What are the chances, do you think, that Haiku will eclipse both Linux and MacOS X and become the number two player?
In the near future? Virtually 0.
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2007-05-14
I hope all these people that feel the desktop is their mission and Linux is missing "it" will put their energy into Haiku (BeOS born again). This effort is for desktop only.
BeOS had much promise.