Russell Coker wrote:
Developing your own kernel nowadays is a fairly stupid thing to do when there's a range of decent ones available for free.
I am reliably informed by a current MS employee, that there is a mandate of no new dependencies on FOSS projects. I got the very strong impression this was a politicial decision, not a technical one. Regarding upthread discussion about Apple, recall that they made a couple of failed attempts to implement a replacement for MacOS before NeXT finally bailed them out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX (unix on macos; not really apropos) They picked between NeXT and Be; I often see people speculating on what Apple would look like now had they gone the other way.