Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Mar 2010 14:04 UTC
Over the past couple of months, I've been getting a number of emails asking me about SkyOS' status. Since I didn't know anything beyond what's on the SkyOS website, and because, well, I have no affiliation with SkyOS, I couldn't really reply to these emails. However, after yet another email sent to me late last week, I decided to simply... Email Robert Szeleney, the man behind the project.
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Member since:2009-08-26
No one has access to the code so nothing can be proven. However his claims are highly suspicious given how many man-hours it takes to build a tcp/ip stack and kernel from scratch and how oddly similar his design choices are to Unix-like systems. It would be one thing if he had been working on a system like Haiku that can not easily take from FreeBSD/Linux systems but a posix compatible monokernel?
So anyways how much money did you send him Thom?
Funny how he has been suspected of GPL violations in the past yet never wanted to clear his name by open sourcing the project. What kind of IP would he be giving away here? It isn't as if there is a shortage of Unix-like monokernels.
Why not just open it so we can see his pre-emptive multitasking kernel? It would be interesting to see the kernel design decisions he made in comparison to the teams that have worked on the BSD and Linux kernels.
I'm going to build a Quake 3 like engine this weekend that just happens to work with Quake 3 mods. I'll be charging $15 for the beta so go ahead and send me your money.
Member since:2005-06-29
However his claims are highly suspicious given how many man-hours it tak [...] FreeBSD/Linux systems but a posix compatible monokernel?
So, oh great sensei, how many kernels have you written? Where do you get all this experience from? Who made you the authority in this area? All I know is that SkyOS is a project started in the late '90s, and considering how incredibly useless, broken, and totally lacking in hardware support it has been, it is not at all impossible for him to having written this by himself - especially considering he works for a company that coded extensively with vXworks, giving him substantial access to information about hardware covered under NDAs.
So anyways how much money did you send him Thom?
More baseless accusations, but I'll bite: none. I got my beta access as a gift ages ago, because before I joined OSNews, I helped in translation and some other aspects.
Funny how he has been suspected of GPL violations in the past yet never wanted to clear his name by open sourcing the project. What kind of IP would he be giving away here? It isn't as if there is a shortage of Unix-like monokernels.
He works for a company that has access to information under NDAs - which is likely what makes it hard for him to just open source it. This is information you do not have because you have never been involved with the project. Which is fine - but it only serves to illustrate how uninformed you are.
Member since:2006-01-26
No one has access to the code so nothing can be proven.
Exactly, you might as well stop there, because pretty much everything else you keep spouting is nothing but bullshit and speculation. You're clearly an ass, you can stop proving it to us now.
If SkyOS was based on Linux or BSD, it would be lightyears ahead of where it is. I can't even get it to boot on a multitude of systems that run BSD and Linux just fine, thanks.
Member since:2007-03-26
. It would be one thing if he had been working on a system like Haiku that can not easily take from FreeBSD/Linux systems but a posix compatible monokernel?
Linux isn't fully POSIX compatible. Only partially - much like Haiku.
So I'm really not sure what the point your trying to make here - aside trying to devalue the hard work of a fellow developer based on nothing more than prejudice.
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Proof, sonny. You can't make claims like this without proof.