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Another Line Of Haiku (The OS, That Is)
Published 2/18/2009 by syegulalp@techweb.com (Serdar Yegulalp) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Once upon a time, there was BeOS. The brainchild of former Apple alum Jean-Louis Gassée, it looked for a time like a genuine alternative to both Windows and Mac, but its star fizzled. An attempt to create an open-source clone of BeOS, Haiku , is underway -- but to what end, you might ask? Don't we have enough platforms?
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