Kurt does not accept code submissions for the crucial parts of AtheOS. AtheOS is solely his project, and the fact that it is licensed under the GPL does not make it immediately a 'community' project. Kurt accepts however source code for drivers or for some important bug fixes. You can always discuss the internals of the OS with Kurt or exchange opinions in design issues by using the develoepr's mailing list, but that does not mean that your code will be accepted if you re-write something as critical as, let's say, the VM.
Many do not understand this behavior, they cannot conceive the idea that an open source project can only be developed by a single man and lock the rest out. I personally understand Kurt, because I lived among people who are OS writters for a long time (and I even married one ;-), specifically, since 1995.
Writting a hobby operating system is all about a journey on gathering knowledge and having lots of fun in the process.
(late nights coding, lots of pizza, beer etc)
There is nothing more and nothing less into it. Hobby OS coders do not seek to overthrown Microsoft. They do not want to be the new Linus. They simply code to learn more and better themselves (which is proved by the fact that AtheOS has been re-writen in the past). If someone offers the code to you ('ready-made spinach pie' as we say in Greece), you learn nothing. If you just put together what different people have done at different times, it will result in confusion and bloatware, with no personal gain that fullfils the above 'dogma'.
- "Installation"
- "The Desktop"
- "The Internals"
- "Development Model"
- "What's Missing"
- "Epilogue"
