> Well, that's questionning the essence of the Haiku project. The main > goal of the project is "writing an open source binary compatible replacement for BeOS R5". I know for an absolute fact that the corporate charter and stated charitable purpose, when the application for non profit status was submitted was: To create a user friendly desktop operating system. That clearly is not the primary goal of the project now. The primary goal cleatly has become to follow a plan that, as is clear from these conversations, a large portion of desktop users are actually adverse to. J