> Do you guyz have a Web site? Yes, but we haven't really gone "public yet". We have a "beta polish" list we want to reach before going "public". That being said, any one is welcome to join or ask questions, we just don't want to "invite" others will we have certain things together.
> Mailing list? Yes. > Do you break off from #OS or were you around before? It's a project Ive been wanting to do for many many years. I was just about to start playing when someone alerted me to SharpOS. So I joined the lists here. At the time SharpOS was in pretty good disarray - ie not the code but the project. There was no license really, the licenses that did exist conflicted, there was no board etc. I pushed the guys here to formalize certain aspects and they did. They created a board, and made several decisions that previously were hanging. That was great progress - before that people couldn't really judge where/how things could/should/did happen. We discussed many things, but my major disagreement was over the licensing. When GPL was decided on, I stated that I'd stay around and offer input as I could / as it was wanted but that personally I was not going to put any major efforts into a GPL project. Prior to that, Matthijs and I had started some prototypes and had planned to possibly merge them into SharpOS once licensing was resolved. But once GPL was settled on, we decided to go our own way as we had not worked on SharpOS directly and we started from scratch. We're moving very well and I've got a lot of interest from other OS people Ive worked with in the past. We've tried to not encourage people to jump in yet, but we are getting close to our polish point.... ie we work on 64 bit, a debugger, ISO deployment, works in QEMU, vmware, etc... Re merging - anythings possible and I wont rule it out but I think the SharpOS board and Cosmos differ too much on ideologies to work as one project. Cross pollination is more likely - except that the licenses kind of exclude each other. Although Cosmos license would allow use in SharpOS, except for the fact that Cosmos code cannot be "Redone" as GPL. In fact that's a big problem in some Linux areas, people taking FreeBSD code and rebranding it as GPL.... And of course GPL cannot go to BSD license either... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers
