I am a little skeptical about the prospects for success on this project.
The FreeDOS roadmap ( http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FreeDOS_Road_Map
) is out of date and short on details. I would like to see a broad
discussion on the roadmap, get consensus and have it updated.
Anything that uses the name "FreeDOS" should be reserved for the classic 16
bit operating system. A new project that uses a fundamentally different
kernel should not just have a different version number; it's a different
OS. I would expect them to call it "FreeDOS-32 v1.0" or something like
that, not FreeDOS v2.0. You should do this to preserve your trademark
protections too.
Trying to find somebody on freelancer.com to do work on FreeDOS-32 is going
to fail. It's just not going to happen. The crowd-sourcing programming
sites attract people who are very optimized to do a specific piece of work,
such as making a new web site using a particular framework. Operating
system skills and DOS skills are not going to be available, and nobody is
going to want to trudge up the learning curve for a very limited duration
gig. FreeDOS contributors are hobbyists - they do it because they are
interested. There is no financial incentive to work on it and the
knowledge is esoteric and not in demand. It's not a good candidate for
outsourcing.
The Kickstarter project may prove me wrong. I am interested to see if it
does. But at a minimum please consider throwing that project back in its
own namespace and not polluting "FreeDOS".
Mike
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
> Chelson Aitcheson has just started an independent Kickstarter project to
> fund development for FreeDOS-32, in support of a FreeDOS 2.0 distribution.
> I will also post a note about this on the FreeDOS website, but I wanted to
> share a link here for those who wanted to contribute.
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597889412/freedos-20-32-bit
>
> The Kickstarter aims to raise $2,500 by Thursday, January 29 2015.
> Chelson's goal is to hire public developers through freelancer.com to
> improve FreeDOS-32. If FreeDOS-32 can be significantly improved, Chelson
> hopes it will become part of mainline FreeDOS.
>
> I'll add that I haven't used FreeDOS-32 but if it supports classic DOS
> programs on modern systems while adding new and useful features, I would
> support that kernel update in FreeDOS 2.0.
>
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