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SkyOS: Chasing Butterflies

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 1 comment
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SkyOS has always been criticised for the fact that you have to pay for it in order to beta test it. I personally never saw a problem with this construction, especially since the price included a full copy of SkyOS 5 (they dropped the five) once it was completed. However, as of late, it has become increasingly clear that there may never be anything like a final version - or another test release for that matter.

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rijelkentaurus ·
This was always an interesting little project, but I never felt like paying for a perpetual beta, particularly when Linux was free, Free and rocked my processors. However, he lists open sourcing SkyOS as one of four options available to him, and I really hope he does that. There may be bits that would be useful to other OSes and projects, and perhaps we might even wind up with another open source OS to combat proprietary operating systems. The more the merrier, I say!

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