> CosmOS, which was in an exact inverse state, and started implementing To be clear, its Cosmos, not CosmOS.
> the things SharpOS had - hoping he can ride the coat-tails of mterwood Actually mostly J has been on the website etc. The core features you refer to are mostly done by Matthijs and I and were present before Jonathan joined. You are welcome to check the checkin records on CodePlex and our Milestones have been published for quite some time as well. > to the top. And then he comes back to the SharpOS chat room last week, > to inform us that he (quite obviously) split for you guys, and stirring > up alot of negativity. Particularly by mentioning tid-bits about you > supposedly telling him not to tell us stuff, like the fact the he left > (which we aren't that oblivious), or that DarxKies has been nice enough > to point mterwood in good directions every now and then. I didnt tell him not to tell you. It was suggested that it might be best just to "leave quietly" so as not to inflame relations. > Well, I think managed code, as I understand how it works today, doesn't > have a 1988 equivalent. ;-) And I think all of us, as soon as we became You should study computer science history a bit closer then. The mainframe for one, and while not equivalent to todays managed code, its strikingly similar. Several research papers were published decades ago as well. It only took until recent times because of lack of advanced tools, and processing power. > aware of the concept, had notions of how wonderful it would be to have > an OS in such a form. It has been only recently, that the power of the > Mono corlib, and the power of Cecil, has made it feasible for .NET > fans. (I've personally been all over .NET since Beta 1, even though I > *was* in primary school - such is the niceness of an MSDN subscription > in the family.) It was possible before Cecil and Mono as well. And in fact its not even restricted to .NET. There have been ones on Java, as well as Pascal PCode many years ago. Although for a variety of reasons I believe .Net to be a superior choice. > community could move forward. (And even if you and mterwood had been > welcomed into the SharpOS board, your votes would not have swayed our > otherwise unanimous decision.) Instead - the community has been split. > And between licensing differences and what will undoubtedly unfold as > architectural differences, the core of our projects will be mutually > exclusive enough that, down the road, whichever project has more > popularity, will completely dilute interest in the other. I dont see it as a split. I dont see why everyone has to have the same vision. There are many distro's of linux - and even more notably FreeBSD as a totally separate branch. I think if anything - this further highlights many of our differences. You and I drastically view open source development differently. Your view is fine - but it is drastically different than ours and one of the primary reasons we chose not to stay active on #OS. > And despite my verbosity, and my initial tense tone - I still think > that if any effort is possible to work together, that it should be > done. But the cynical side of me says that this particular ship has > sailed - and that same cynicism thinks its funny seeing moitoius try to > catch up in a row-boat. I dont see it as so closed. I see it very likely that in the future the projects might again somehow work in collaboration with driver cross pollination, and other such facts if somehow licenses permit. I'm still here - not as a spy but as a passive participant. I'm still interested in the project, I just don't subscribe to some of the same goals. But I dont agree with my sister's politics either, but that doesn't mean there is any animosity between us even though we would vote for different politicians. But it does prevent us from participating in the same grass roots efforts. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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
