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Article Discussions / Re: ArcaOS Wishlist - 6 months !!
« on: December 30, 2017, 06:30:41 pm »In truth we need USB 3.0 and WiFi equally as much for the future of OS/2. If everyone supported ArcaOS I wonder if that would be a stimulus to more driver development. Let's face it Ecomstaion is a bridge to nowhere right now.
The problem is a shortage of knowledgeable OS/2 device developers. Not all developers can write device drivers as different developers seem to have different expertise. David is probably working as fast as he can, so to develop more drivers would mean finding someone, hiring them and training them in OS/2 development. A good developer is likely to cost upwards of $200.000 a year (cheaper if hired in a cheaper country) including all the various overheads, which means selling a few thousand licenses at least per developer, perhaps quite a few more depending on the profit margins of ArcaOS. Meanwhile our community is shrinking and in this time of "free" software including operating systems, it's hard to imagine much new blood to buy licenses.
Even Windows seems to be free to most people as it comes bundled with the hardware.