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SkyOS Development Team Quizzed

Posted by simoniker on from the limit-of-heaven dept.

Hexydes writes "TechIMO recently interviewed the SkyOS Development Team about SkyOS. The developers were asked questions regarding SkyOS 5.0, what a typical development day is like, and why they decided to work on SkyOS, which is 'a free operating system written from scratch for x86 PC's'. Included in the interview are pictures from the most recent beta build of SkyOS 5.0"

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  1. Free eh? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Informative

    Something that...

    1: Eats at GPL programs and does not follow GPL
    2: Has no source to examine
    3: No "Open Source" type license
    4: Pissy developers when you mention Open Source

    Real free. Want speech with that?

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    1. Re:Free eh? by Hexydes · · Score: 5, Informative
      You have no idea what you're talking about. Its sad that you would parade around your claims as if they were facts.

      We have talked to the FSF, and they are perfectly fine with our project. We also talked to any developers whose code we used in included applications, and any ones we were able to contact were also fine with the situation.

      In fact, the ONLY people who have had a problem with things regarding the GPL are a few random users on Slashdot. The FSF is fine with us. Developers are fine with us. 99% of users are fine with us. Why do you have such a problem with our project? We aren't breaking any part of the GPL purposely. Robert accidentally does not have the source for the 4.0 applications available any more (as he uses them to develop to the 5.0 applications), and we've already cleared all of that up with the developers and the FSF. When we release 5.0, we will also be releasing the source to GPL applications.

      As far as the kernel and underlying parts of the system go, 95% of that is code that Robert has written, the rest uses BSD.

      I really wish a few people would stop looking for ways to attack our project.

  2. Re:They don't get OSS by Smartcowboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Surely, it can't be the huge market out there for Yet Another Operating System.

    How many DIFFERENT operating systems is out there?

    I count all these unix-like as only one because they are not so different and inovative from each other.

    So there are (in no particular order):

    -Windows
    -UNIX and UNIX-like (Linux, BSD, ect)
    -OSX (UNIX-like but don't use X)

    In the somewhat-usable-for-the-desktop market, i think that's all. There is many other specialised OS but SkyOS want to be a desktop OS. Only three...

    And don't count these os that are no longer maintained or don't have a significative market share:
    -Amiga
    -BeOS
    -OS/2
    -put your favorite unknown desktop os here