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Amazing how much drama that can happen around failed operating systems that no-one cares about beyond a few diehard fans. Similar thing happened with RiscOS, w
by mattkevan 4y ago
Amazing how much drama that can happen around failed operating systems that no-one cares about beyond a few diehard fans.
Similar thing happened with RiscOS, where weird small companies fought over scraps rather than open-sourcing and benefiting everyone. AmigaOS (and RiscOS) was amazing for its time and still has a lot to teach, so for it to be locked behind such nonsense is a pity.
Am just glad that the various people behind RiscOS did actually manage to get it together and open it properly [0].
(Still sad that Magic Cap got swallowed by IV, never to be seen again.)
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS
- adamredwoods 4y agoAnd BeOS (Haiku now): https://www.haiku-os.org/ https://www.haiku-os.org/
- ecpottinger 4y agoExcept Haiku is open source. See: https://www.haiku-os.org/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/ https://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/
- mattkevan 4y agoHaiku is an amazing piece of work, but it would have saved everyone a lot of time and it’d be a lot further advanced if the original code was available, rather than having to implement it from scratch.
- ranger_danger 4y agoThe original source is available, and the Haiku devs specifically has license to use it.
- mattkevan 4y agoAh I didn’t know that, thanks for the correction. That’s good to hear. Haiku is amazing.
- waddlesplash 4y ago(Haiku developer here.) The correction is wrong; while some select portions of BeOS were released as open-source (most notably Tracker, Deskbar), the OS as a whole was not, and Haiku is thus largely a clean-room reimplementation.