Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Sphere Operating System - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On you site you state that you suspended your project.

Also we do not host complete OSs, so I can't approve your project.  

Rudy

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:43:35PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Alan Grimes <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: The Sphere Operating System
> System name: sphere
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> THE SPHERE OPERATING SYSTEM
> 
> This project\'s humble goal is to create _THE_ World Domination OS. This is 
> not intednded to be a toy OS, or some neat trick OS or even a capable 
> special-purpose OS. It is meant to be _THE_ OS. 
> 
> My goals are as follows: 
> 1. Destroy Microsoft.
> 2. Give users (especially me!) something that is truly not Unix nor resembles 
> unix in any way -- taking the philosophy \"If Unix does A, then it is 
> probably better to do B.\" 
> 3. Break more rules than would generally be considered possible including and 
> especially compatability with crufty old C standard libraries. 
> 4. Achieve a near-horizontal learning curve. 
> 
> The project\'s website is: 
> http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/UCE/ 
> 
> Of special note is the design document, \"sphere.txt\" in the same directory. 
> 
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> I\'m not exactly sure. 
> GNU software might infact have the functionality I need but it is many orders 
> of magnitude too complex/undocumented/crufty for me to use in any meaningful 
> way. 
> 
> Other Comments:
> I expect the Sphere Operating system will require at least $3,000,000 worth 
> of effort simply to achieve a beta-ish 1.0 level. Beyond that, it will 
> require at least $100,000,000 to begin to compete with Micro$oft. I tried to 
> develop a beta myself but I simply don\'t have the type of mind which can 
> wrestle with the x86 and the existing tools at the same time. =\\
> 
> 
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