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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Sphere Operating System - savan
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Rudy Gevaert |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Sphere Operating System - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:59:13 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
On you site you state that you suspended your project.
Also we do not host complete OSs, so I can't approve your project.
Rudy
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:43:35PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Alan Grimes <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: The Sphere Operating System
> System name: sphere
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> THE SPHERE OPERATING SYSTEM
>
> This project\'s humble goal is to create _THE_ World Domination OS. This is
> not intednded to be a toy OS, or some neat trick OS or even a capable
> special-purpose OS. It is meant to be _THE_ OS.
>
> My goals are as follows:
> 1. Destroy Microsoft.
> 2. Give users (especially me!) something that is truly not Unix nor resembles
> unix in any way -- taking the philosophy \"If Unix does A, then it is
> probably better to do B.\"
> 3. Break more rules than would generally be considered possible including and
> especially compatability with crufty old C standard libraries.
> 4. Achieve a near-horizontal learning curve.
>
> The project\'s website is:
> http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/UCE/
>
> Of special note is the design document, \"sphere.txt\" in the same directory.
>
>
>
> Other Software Required:
> I\'m not exactly sure.
> GNU software might infact have the functionality I need but it is many orders
> of magnitude too complex/undocumented/crufty for me to use in any meaningful
> way.
>
> Other Comments:
> I expect the Sphere Operating system will require at least $3,000,000 worth
> of effort simply to achieve a beta-ish 1.0 level. Beyond that, it will
> require at least $100,000,000 to begin to compete with Micro$oft. I tried to
> develop a beta myself but I simply don\'t have the type of mind which can
> wrestle with the x86 and the existing tools at the same time. =\\
>
>
>
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