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Google Working On New 'Fuchsia' OS (digitaltrends.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google is working on a new operating system dubbed Fuchsia OS for smartphones, computers, and various other devices. The new operating system was spotted in the Git repository, where the description reads: "Pick + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System). Hacker News reports that Travis Geiselbrech, who worked on NewOS, BeOS, Danger, Palm's webOS and iOS, and Brian Swetland, who also worked on BeOS and Android will be involved in this project. Magenta and LK kernel will be powering the operating system. "LK is a kernel designed for small systems typically used in imbedded applications," reads the repository. "On the other hand, Magenta targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of RAM with arbitrary peripherals doing open-ended computation." It's too early to tell exactly what this OS is meant for. Whether it's for an Android and Chrome OS merger or something completely new, it's exciting nonetheless.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 10.
So, my question is: Why didn't you simply port it to OS X? It would have been infinitely simpler than rewriting from scratch, and a far better decision than subjecting the company to the spyware horrorshow that is Windows 10.
And please don't EVEN try to talk about the cost of replacing hardware with "expensive Macs". That (already suspect) argument would not have stood up against the immense cost of starting from scratch, rather than making a few simple tweaks to run under OS X.
Heck, even if your software was married to X11 in some way, you could have had that under OS X/macOS, too.
So, did you even ONCE stop to think of this ready alternative to the tyranny of the GPL?
BTW, this is why Apple never uses the GPL to license it's own F/OSS Projects (of which they have several).