You know what?
Everyone here has some good points.
I personally think some sort of topographical user login system to mimic like Linux root login system would be fantastic, along with some built in firewall stuff for the TCP/IP stack (like XP) would keep the platfrom secure.
But hey, perhaps that's OS4 Server or OS4 MultiClient or something lol
Seriously, the only thing that's going to make OS4 a success is sales. If people buy it, for whatever reason, yes even just geeks, then we will get continued development. Why? well because it shows growth and growth to a company means success, but it needs to be continual growth.
Yoy see KMOS knows there are going to be sales. What it wants however is "continual" sales, hense upgrades or version releases to keep cash flowing. I hear things like "but how much is enough" and "What's it take to cover expenses"
Every serious company knows to expect hardship for the first release and should be prepared to take that hardship on. KMOS know they are not going to make millions to start, it will be gradual and may run a loss Vs development for a little while. That said, what they DO want is that gradual uptake of their product. Yes, even if it's going to be a geek OS of choice, just as long as it looks like it will continue to grow and interest more and more geeks. Kinda sounds like Linux.
A very good friend of mine here in AUS also used to be the president of the Linux dev of Aus. I remember him showing me the first steps of Linux and his compiled hacks for drivers he used to write to run it on networks etc....
It was very much so a geek OS. If you couldn't code, it wasn't for you. But time passes and it's slowly making in-roads into the masses and starting to become an accepcted alternative to the WinTel monopoly.
So how many users is growth?? what would be acceptable?
Go and buy it when it's released. That is growth. See if anyone else would be interested in it, ask them to have a look for themselves.
Even selling just one copy increases the userbase. the more single user licenses that sell, eventually that 1 becomes 10, then 100 and then well others look at it cause if it's good for 100, there may just be something worth investigating.
I think people are excited about another alternative. Linux is very hard to use even now without learning the intracasies of scripting, Window?? Well know one bloody knows what that beast is doing ever. You can spend 1000s of $$ taking courses to work out why you need to program certain ways, but the beast is an unknown and not everyone has $M "ways of doing things" in mind.
The OS does have the potential for success, it will require support, esp from the company, but that will only come if building interest can be seen.
Let's just hope that this is the case.
