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how on earth am i first with the obvious answer: palmos easily the biggest failed opportunity at the very least beos was some solid engineering but came out around the time when microsoft weirdly managed to migrate kernels into the servicable 95 (making beos advantages relatively incremental), and it was then left entirely without point when microsoft managed to make it across onto nt as well
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hard to pin down whether GEM failed or not since it was never that successful, and also stayed just being sort-of kind-of successful for a long time. atari home computers failing was sort of the failure of truly common GEM use i guess, but it is not like TOS and GEM were compatible etc.
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i need some kind of taxonomic analysis of open source projects to just base an intuitive understanding of the difference between the teams making awesome quirky stuff like mame, the people who decide that reimplementing microsoft word is anything but a pathetic waste of their free time, the corporate software project done in public, etc. i really could go for knowing more about more projects like mame where it is clearly labors of love while also pushing actual technical boundaries a bit, but i am aggressively uninterested in open source as the broader "movement" since most of the stuff is incredibly dreary and often quite sad
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