@Bodie
It's sad that Hyperion have to prove/justify and also have to waste time countering against this kind of 'FUD'.
Even though Ben has bothered wasting time to do so, IMHO it's a futile exercise.
There will still be posts from 'certain' people who apparantly know more about the progress of OS4 than Hyperion do themselves, giving out about Ben being a liar, etc, etc.
I don't profess to know any more than the average person here, however from postings I've had with a few contributors to the project, I've gotten the impression it's a lot closer to being done than 'certain' people would like you to believe.
There will be calls for Hyperion to show something, but since no company in their right sense shows an incomplete OS to the public (with the exception of M$ with Win95 ;~), there's no need at this time for any alarm.
If we hear _nothing at all_ for 6 months call me back.
Until then "Don't Panic Mr Mannering"***
-john
***Quote from Old TV series 'Dads Army'