Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Mar 2009 23:21 UTC
At the end of January this year, I wrote a rather harsh, but honest article on the state of SkyOS. I was very worried that the closed-source operating system, for which users have to pay in order to beta test it, would never reach a final version, something that was promised to the people paying the price. This feeling was strengthened by a lack of updates; we were five months without news, six months without a release, and 8 months without a changelog update. My article got the ball rolling, but now that we're five weeks down the road, is that ball still rolling?
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But to demand progress on something you don't own is disrespectful even if you bought into the beta it's still not your code.
It's your money though, and you've got the right to feel screwed and bitch as a result if you forked it over hoping for a "final" someday.
Thankfully, I haven't bought into this SkyOS thing, and have therefore not paid a penny, nor ever even used the OS. I was kind of skeptical all along. The more I hear, the more I'm glad that's the case, because I would be pretty annoyed, if not downright pissed by now, if I were a paying customer. On the other hand, I would like the try it, but I just can't justify it.
SkyOS really sounded interesting, but I just had a feeling--considering it's a one-man OS--that it wouldn't go very far. He just didn't seem to want to give *any* control up. Now, I'm not a developer myself, but I don't have to be to know that if one person has absolute control over a project, they can get "bored" or "tired" of it and lose motivation out of nowhere. Especially one as extreme as an entire operating system. So far, I see nothing proving me wrong.
The idea of SkyOS being controlled as Linus does the Linux kernel (ie. by Robert, accepting or denying community changes) and being released under a MIT/BSD-style license does sound like the way to go though, IMO. I could imagine a lot more activity if that happened. Who knows if it'll happen, though.
Edited 2009-03-10 07:23 UTC
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2008-06-29
It's a closed source operating system I don't see what the big deal is. You paid for a beta. I'm sure you used the beta. If and when there is an update I'm sure you'll have access to it. I hope SkyOS continues in some form or another but in the end it's not my call so my opinion doesn't count. Things change, goals change, hardware changes and over time lessons are learned. But to demand progress on something you don't own is disrespectful even if you bought into the beta it's still not your code.