Should RISC OS be Open Sourced?

An anonymous reader writes "Aficionados of RISC OS are in a dilemma. With RISC OS Ltd, one of the main developers of the OS, in financial trouble, should RISC OS be open sourced? Users and developers say yes, citing the current slow development of the platform in the hands of its owners. However, Paul Middleton, RISC OS Ltd MD, said, 'It is one thing to release software as open source so that people can look at the source code and help sort out the troublesome problems that "many hands can make light work of". It is completely another to simply say that the source should be freely available to anyone to do with as they like.' Paul also had reservations regarding 'the fragmentation seen in the open source world, such as the number of different Linux distributions and end user support nightmare entailed from that situation.'"

Comments

Of course it should be Open Sourced.

[GeorgeMcBay]

RISC OS is completely irrelevant to the real world, so of course it should follow in the footsteps of Xara, InterBase, etc.

Open Source: Where old software goes to die!

My Life as a Man-Baby

[cpeterso]

My wife and I just gave birth to our first child (well, she did most of the work, if you know what I mean). Then I got laid-off because my job was outsourced to India because some open-source software started copying the company's software. So now I'm a stay-at-home dad, a Mr Mom, if you will.

Spending time with our daughter, something buried in me began to shine through my depression. My childhood was happy and then everything started going down hill. The solution: I would become a man-baby.

I stopped searching for a new job. I cashed out my 401k to buy a queen-sized, custom-made baby crib. When my wife gets home from work, she changes our daughter's diapers. Then she changes my diapers. My man poopy is much larger (and stinkier) than my daughter's! My wife is still breast-feeding our daughter. She has yet to warm up to breast-feeding me. It took long enough to get her to change my diapers! I sneak some of my wife's milk from our daughter's bottle ('ba-ba"), though I add a splash of booze to my ba-ba.

I have a job interview next week, but I'm not sure if I'm going to go. My wife sent my resume to be bunch of job ads on craigslist. I guess she wants me to get a job. But I'm not ready for that. I still a little (man) baby, damn it! Wait til I get a little older before sending me off to work..

Re:RISC OS? Hey, I remember that!

[KillShill]

the only problem being that RiscOS doesn't run on modern co mputers.

so it's not the useful...