The more I think about the problem. The less exiting life becomes, or at least the outlook for Haiku as anything beyond a hobby OS. I personally think that is pretty sad.
while we can all debate the various merits and pitfalls of the BE OS, one thing remains ardently true. Even had non competitive practices not taken place to pigeon hole the BEOS, the chicken and egg problem would have remained. I am going to say something that will likely come off as unpopular and or even as heretical. for Hiaku "if it wants sucess in the OS space" to become a real platform. It must find a way to support windows applications. Windows is 95% or so of the desktop market. the exact space Haiku has been targeted. Even with the emerging ARM cpu's comming into the market space, it will be 5-10 years before adoption could be wide enough to compete with x86 and even then it may not matter as arm will invariably hit the exact same limits that x86 appears to be running up against "IPC benefits aside'
So what are ideas and or motives going forward to grow Haiku, or is this to be only a hobby OS for hardcore enthuasists, similar to linux ?
Just wondering where the whole thing is going.I see the Haiku mission statement. what I don't see is the model to bring in large groups ot users to hit a sustainable numbers of users and developers to have a growing or even competitive eco system.
BTW I am not advocating the linux model. Thats just horriable.
