[netweirdo]

This "sounds cool" at first - but when you think about it (assuming it's possible) the overlap between developers and users would probably drive users crazy.I'm tempted to say that users don't want to "edit" the operating system....but that would be a bad assumption - who knows what users want.

You would probably have to set this up so there is a some kind of demarcation between people who want the "role" of user or developer .. and the intermediate roles. You need to be able to use it simply without wanting to edit it.

Also, if it's "WikiOs" - why the fu do I need Windows?

[psawaya]

It seems like whenever you give web users collaboration tools (with proper security/vandalism protection), they often exceed most expectations of what they can accomplish. If someone told you about Wikipedia before it went online, could you have guessed it would grow to be the resource it is today?

Granted, most of the people who use Wikipedia aren't article editors, but that's okay, and I could see most Wiki-OS users being there to just use the apps, with a minority of devoted developers. Personally, I think this is a really cool idea