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It's amazing how far you got alone. Respect. I'm also too curious on the "why". While I greatly respect the achievement, I'm sad to think it's wasted effort. I deeply wish you have a secret strategy - while I doubt.

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My utility function is to write a good operating system that I like. Any effort towards that goal is not wasted. If I can use it on my computers, which I can, I'm happy. Note the existence of secondary benefits. Sortix libz is a cleaner fork of zlib, and other portable replacement libraries are underway. Other hobbyist OS developers learn from my work and advise. I make third party projects more portable and file upstream bugs. These things benefit all of us, regardless of the market share of my OS.

I see, cool. Thank you for explaining, I think I didn't get the point. Last point of the Roadmap [1] is hilarious.

[1] https://gitlab.com/sortix/sortix/wikis/home#roadmap-to-0-9-r...

It's not a wasted effort if the idea was to play and learn. No need to have a marketing strategy for that.

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