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This may sound jealous -- but I'm a bit sick to my stomach seeing a file browser raise $2 million dollars when Haiku OS, one of the most promising and important
by mouse_ 3y ago
This may sound jealous -- but I'm a bit sick to my stomach seeing a file browser raise $2 million dollars when Haiku OS, one of the most promising and important open source projects of all time in my opinion, can hardly manage $15k a year. I really wish Haiku could get more support.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoIt's a double threat of a file manager. One, it's promising cross platform. Really really cross platform: Download for macOS Windows Linux iOS watchOS Android. That's a big audience that can make what they already do potentially better. Second, it's cross system. It lets you work across your computers. I think this is one of the biggest gaps open source tends to have; it's not enough to make great single system software. The modern expectation is an ability to work a ross machines, to have on demand access to a variety of data. So this both intends to be usable on a huge range of systems, and it intends to work across systems. $2m is still an incredible hell of a lot for open source to raise, just a wild amount of money, but these characteristics it has - that it has general appeal, that it is connective software - both to me explain some of the allure & contrast against what most open source software looks like.
- johng 3y agoI'm thinking of the number of people that could potentially run (and use this app daily) vs. the number of people that could run (and use it as an os daily) Haiku and it's not even close. I think that's really the difference.