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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Member since:2006-07-01
> ...Robert lost focus on delivering an OS, and got caught up in seeing just how many cutting edge functions he could cram into the OS...
Or myabe since he has a kid now, he realises that there are more important things to life then sitting 24/7 in front of a monitor programming, trying to make a bit of money (what did it cost $5? geez, you couldn't even by Homebase's cheapest plastic bogroll holder for that, and you people are moaning?!?).
Not everything last for ever. get over it, and find a new project to waste your time with until you discover what is really important in life.
Member since:2005-08-12
Ummm...i think you should spend less time looking for troll space, and more reading my comments. I said in the last couple releases!! Hence the time before the kid when he was still working on the project, not the hiatus time when he went away to spend time with family.
I have a 4yr old and as a single father, please don't preach to me about loosing time...that part I understand. Don;t take my comments out of context please.
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2005-08-12
As another paying customer, I would echo some of the sentiment and disdain Thom has. I think it's well within his/our right to bitch & complain if for nothing other than to make ourselves feel better after being shafted lol.
One man show...wow..I can only imagine how hard that hs been, and how tough it must be on the guy, so I kinda feel sorry for him. I can't, in good conscience, ask a fellow geek to choose between his family and his own OS lol, but something has to give sooner or later. I think the title of the first article Thom wrote, summed it up quite nicely...Chasing butterflies.
It seemed to me, that in those final months of activity, Robert lost focus on delivering an OS, and got caught up in seeing just how many cutting edge functions he could cram into the OS. The project has lost all sense of focus, and was wnadering aimlessly on a mission to implement new functions rather than refine old ones.
I think that, before any choice on who finishes SkyOS gets made, Robert needs to decide WHAT SkyOS "is". I think that he would be better served, carving out a role in the marketplace, rather than just another OS. I would personally think that it could really gain some steam as a lightweight "Netbook" OS. With the E17 like tricks in the quite and the really modular code, I think its got a fighting chance to make some ground. People have already accepted that netbooks dont HAVE to come with windows, and other operating systems are more suitable, so have the battle is won.
It would be amazing to see SkyOS and ReactOS have a baby that grows up to live in a netbook!! New look & feel + the ability to run some windows programs, would be kick ass!
Think about it!!