Linked by Eli Gottlieb on Wed 28th Dec 2005 13:29 UTC
Right now the situation for developers of minor operating systems seems somewhat bleak. Windows and the Unixes compete in the server world, and Windows and MacOS X compete on the desktop. Linux even gets ported to every embedded device, leaving few niches for the hobbyist or sidelined operating system developer. Some have even gone so far as to say that New Operating Systems Won't Stand a Chance. As anyone who reads OSNews can tell you, however there are a wealth of new systems with new ideas that just aren't taking off. Given all these new ideas some - like capability security from EROS for example - should be good enough to catch on, so why aren't they?
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2005-07-12
A river having carried small stone particles for millions of years made the Grand Canyon. A drop a day on a stone will wear holes in the stone just so. The only thing Linux - or any other piece of free software for that matter - needs to be succesful is to survive.
This is can never be said for software which needs to generate money - it must change, it must generate need, lust, excitement, want.
Linux does not need to generate money. Syllable does not. EROS (Coyote) does not. Haiku does not. AROS does not. These are operating systems which need hardware to run on, that is all.
Even Vista is not the be all/end all of operating systems, and neither is Mac OS X, Symbian or the operating system in my washing machine.
It is by the slow spread, the mouth-to-mouth, the binary tree evolution, the one-at-a-time, the inescapable, unavoidable drop of water that the stone will be worn away, and sure as I am still installing free software that drop will keep falling.