The Dawn of Haiku OS (Spectrum)
The Dawn of Haiku OS (Spectrum)
Posted May 5, 2012 13:28 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: The Dawn of Haiku OS (Spectrum) by cmccabe
Parent article: The Dawn of Haiku OS (Spectrum)
If you ask one of the people actually /working/ on Haiku's kernel about this they don't care. The "hybrid" claim comes from the fanbase, not the developers. To remove the claim from Wikipedia you'd need an authoritative third party source to say it isn't true, and in topics like Haiku there's a lack of such sources... Unfortunately, being able to "cite" Wikipedia, you will see this claim spreading, and then those recitations can be cited on Wikipedia, snowballing. As I said, for an important topic someone would step up and fix this, but for fans making a bogus technical claim about a hobby OS it's unlikely to happen. Genre claims for obscure bands (e.g. claiming some band "invented" a genre years before it was popularly recognised) are likewise subject to fan distortion on Wikipedia.
