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Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps
Gentu writes "Koki from the japanese site jpbe recently interviewed Michael Phipps, the project leader of OpenBeOS, the open source re-implementation of the BeOS. Read here for the english version of the interview where Michael is discussing the roots of the project, the current status, the roadmap, the choice of the MIT license, its relationship to YellowTAB's Zeta and the other efforts to resurrect BeOS, BeUnited and the Sun Java port and more."
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Who cares really about re-implementating BeOS while there are lots of useful Open Source projects that require more support?
I got "LINUX KERNEL 2.6.0" Tattooed on my penis!
Site seems slow. Google cache
- Scratch the itch of, at a maximum, six people
- Strive to re-invent as many wheels as possible
- Contain members who will fight to the death over trivial issues
- Exist primarily to cause strain to their members' families and careers
For more information about OpenToilet, please see our website at www.opentoilet.org.I mean AmigaOS is GREAT!!! But running BeOS of an AMIGA would be even more GREAT!!! This is soo much cooler than the C64 with ethernet.
...by replacing my Datasette with a Floppy.. maybe I can get one of those C1581.. They already support 3,5" floppies!!!
Watch out Linux weirdos... I show you the future of IT!!!
Take THAT!!!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BeOS community when recently IDC confirmed that *BeOS accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BeOS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BeOS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BeOS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BeOS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BeOS because *BeOS is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BeOS. As many of us are already aware, *BeOS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBeOS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBeOS developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBeOS is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBeOS leader Michael Phipps states that there are 7000 users of OpenBeOS. How many users of NetBeOS are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBeOS versus NetBeOS posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBeOS users. BeOS/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBeOS posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BeOS/OS. A recent article put FreeBeOS at about 80 percent of the *BeOS market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBeOS users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBeOS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBeOS went out of business and was taken over by BeOSI who sell another troubled OS. Now BeOSI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BeOS has steadily declined in market share. *BeOS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BeOS is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BeOS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BeOS is dead.
Fact: *BeOS is dead