During my long career as software contractor I had the pleasure and honor to work for several companies which were ahead of their time, by the boldness and the products they tried to launch on the market. Most of them failed, some of them reached the short path to success of being acquired and enriching a few entrepreneurs and their staff. At the time I was involved with some of them I really believed had a chance to make impact. One of them was BeOS, the operating system company which believed it has an chance to capture the imagination of the public with some important improvements. I stumbled recently upon Haiku which seems to continue on BeOs legacy. I haven't tried it but seems to continue believing somehow people are still interested in operating systems. That concept is long dead. People are interested to use the machines in helping them with their lives, enrich it or expand it to other realms (enhanced reality). As a software engineer contracted by BeOS through a third ...
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