Not really, it's a social reason not a technical reason: those who are 'hardcore enough' to build a 'BeOS shell' like to 'own' their kernel too.. From an 'time

Not really, it's a social reason not a technical reason: those who are 'hardcore enough' to build a 'BeOS shell' like to 'own' their kernel too.. From an 'time to release' POV it'll take much longer, but it's not like they're expecting to earn money from the release.. Haiku is still here while all the BeOS clone projects on top of Linux/BSD kernel died..