at my job I'm a programmer, we have deadlines.
For individual features or major releases? I find it unthinkable to work on a team where deadlines are really enforced. I'd go crazy! I just release a little at a time when I'm sure it's stable. Almost everything is a work in progress, so why hold back?
You're an employee of the company that produces the software products. Most, if not all, of the OS4 programmers are not Hyperion employees. They work on OS4 in their spare time.
Then I take it at least some of them have experience with Open Source?
"Release Early, Release Often"
I've always been disturbed how they've been building-up for a big release with little to no activity in between. In fact, I'm rather surprised a "pre-release" was delved out at all.
Then again, OS4 is definately not UN*X. I'm learning more about UNIX-style architecture every day and I'm starting to really hate the essential design of everything else.
No - they're not welded together *YET* - but they're working hard towards that:
As they have been for the last decade. Devices with "built-in" support only for Windows are nothing new. I'm not saying I'm not concerned, but I find it impossible to believe that without big Linux fans like IBM, any standard will hold. The more I read about Longhorn (specificly, functionality and organization), the more I think Microsoft is really losing it... fast.
Then again, Linux people just copy everything Microsoft does, anyway. It pains me to see just how much KDE looks and works like a Windows box.
