| This is mostly a note to myself. It's interesting to consider "what next" once an OS project reaches this stage. There are soo many directions a team can take, but also, none of those direction lead to a clear path towards massive user adoption. There are obvious holes/gaps in what mainstream OSes offer today, however it is not clear how a project goes from here to addressing those gaps, and even if those were to be addressed, it is not clear how it could displace mainstream OSes. We are clearly better off having projects like this, that give us options in case something were to go horribly wrong with mainstream OSes. However, what is the incentive to keep projects like this alive when the path ahead is soo unclear? How does one disrupt the operating systems market? |