#BeOS. Surely it's won some kind of symbolic war with #Apple. It's almost as if Jean-Paul Gassée knew that the only thing which could possibly trump Steve Jobs's coöption of "the Western canon" and its greatest symbolic treasures was to simplify even further. Be! It's not just an element on the periodic table, it's a command. EXIST! Be incorporated, Be, Incorporated! It's a triumph of marketing and it's saved #HaikuOS, which keeps its small flame burning. It's the most promising escape from the #UNIX mire, in my opinion, a way towards something less hairy and intimidating yet modular and accessible in its range of features.
But I speak as a convert, a former #BeOS developer. It was ever so long ago, in my post-#Caltech years, and I find myself wondering if someone at 'Tech didn't decide to keep spying on what I was doing. I would have made it easy for them; I went on using my UGCS email address for years.
And I propose to help them out, magically! An alchemical ritual to strengthen the elemental aspects of Be and BeOS.
~Chara