Todd wrote recently on the ex-be mailing list:
February 27th, 2003
Todd wrote recently on the ex-be mailing list:
Eric S. Raymond has a new book called The Art Of Unix Programming in draft. In a section comparing other OSes to Unix (for some definition of “Unix”), he gives a survey of BeOS that is quite complimentary, bordering on wistful. His only comment regarding BeOS’s non-open-sourceness is the following:
“Entry barriers to BeOS development were low; though the operating system was proprietary, development tools were inexpensive and full documentation was readily available.”