Hi,
bzt8976 wrote:
So you are saying that you insist on keeping my contributions because I'm not a liar but trustworthy afterall?
Thanks for the confirmation!
a) As other have explained, the copyright on your work is CC0 and is non-revocable (until it expires and becomes public domain)
b) Other people have modified and edited those pages. They are not your work alone, but a collaboration containing other people's work too.
c) Content in the wiki is either removed or edited based on whether or not it's helpful to people trying to learn. Some of your pages (e.g. the message passing tutorial) probably should be rewritten/replaced for that reason; but the same can be said for a lot of pages on the wiki, and nobody is being paid to improve the wiki so there's no way to guarantee when it might happen or if it might happen.
bzt8976 wrote:
I still want to see Brendan's OS. Until he can proove it with some code that he is really competent and worthy of moderation, I have nothing to say.
My earlier operating systems were all open source and/or "viewable source"; but because I write everything in pure assembly my source code was never very useful for most beginners (e.g. better for beginners to use something that's actually designed for educational purposes, like maybe Minix); and over time my project became much more complex and I started researching ideas in an attempt to find ways to make an OS that's better (in some way) than Windows/Linux, and started wanting to make sure other people (Windows/Linux) don't take these ideas, and (given the choice between "trade secret" and patents) I switched to closed source.
At the start of this year (when Spectre and Meltdown were revealed) I cancelled my OS project and haven't written any code since. Instead I've been doing other things (not OS related) while waiting for more "Spectre-like" vulnerabilities to be found and trying to find ways to mitigate all of these vulnerabilities without paying the performance costs that mitigations cause in existing operating systems. I believe I've come up with ways to do this that will make my OS more secure than anything that has ever existed (with "only slightly higher" performance costs and not less performance costs) and will probably start writing code in the next few months. However this code will also be closed source because I have nothing to gain from making it public (other than satisfying whiny trolls that I have no reason and no desire to prove anything to).
I guess this means that (if I can trust your words) I will be able to look forward to you having nothing to say.
Cheers,
Brendan