"Call for a new operating system"

Google Groups: View Thread: "With the current SCO legal battle against Linux (and now possibly
against BSD; see http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3110981),
perhaps it is time to develop a NEW, completely independent
open-source operating system?

If it has the following features, perhaps it would be more marketable:

1. Needs to be fully compatible with Windows, Linux, AND MS-DOS
applications.

2. Needs to be consistent (note there are different flavors of Linux;
once upon a time, there were different flavors of CP/M... anyone
remember what happened next?)

3. Needs to be platform-independent (although time-critical code
could have cpu-dependent modules)

4. Needs to be idiot-friendly (Windows users won't know to type
'mount /dev/cdrom' to access the CD-ROM)

5. Needs to be written completely from scratch, so that infringement
lawsuits will be more difficult to prosecute."