Star Haiku Gets Its First Employee
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Oct 2005 15:59 UTC, submitted by MYOB
BeOS & Derivatives Due to user donations, Haiku, Inc. has enough money to pay Axel through to at least the end of November, as a full, 40-hour-a-week employee. He has also started maintaining a blog of his work.
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rayiner
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2005-07-06

And XFree getting ported makes Linux a serious desktop OS? Please! I suppose the fact that web servers exist for BeOS are enough to make it a server OS, and for me to criticize it for its small server market share?

XFree doesn't make a desktop. Linux didn't have a serious desktop product until GNOME 2.0 came out in 2002. Only in the last year or two have the major Linux vendors even paid more than cursory attention to desktop support. The biggest, RedHat, *still* doesn't care about the desktop. If market share is what you get hard over, realize that market share is only built where companies try to build market share, and only very recently have Linux companies marketed Linux as a desktop.

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Rayiner, you just made my point, maybe inadvertantly.

XFree is(was) the basis of the desktop, unless you were targetting the framebuffer.

The biggest, RedHat, *still* doesn't care about the desktop. If market share is what you get hard over, realize that market share is only built where companies try to build market share, and only very recently have Linux companies marketed Linux as a desktop.

Yeah, no shit. The RedHat VP "Tieman" or something was just saying a year ago that windows is a better fit for the desktop for many tasks. RedHat or Novell still don't care about the desktop because they don't make any money off of it. Surprise, surprise.

But I'm glad to see you come around finally.

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