The goal of Haiku is to revive BeOS in open-source so that it might never die again. It's simply a recreation of BeOS R5 with some modernness thrown in.
I think the developers are intelligent enough to be aware that their OS might not have a future of taking on Apple or Microsoft.
If you want a comparison, this is similar to how Linux came to be. Linus was frustrated at MINIX licensing, so he set out to make his own.
There was a post somewhere where they realized it was going nowhere in terms of turning into a real OS. They have no delusions. They said something like they mainly saw its value in experimentation, learning, fun.
The goal of Haiku is to revive BeOS in open-source so that it might never die again. It's simply a recreation of BeOS R5 with some modernness thrown in.
I think the developers are intelligent enough to be aware that their OS might not have a future of taking on Apple or Microsoft.
If you want a comparison, this is similar to how Linux came to be. Linus was frustrated at MINIX licensing, so he set out to make his own.