presentation = [ "Hi, I'm Ryan Leavengood", "Haiku", "What is it?", "Japanese Poetry", "An Operating System", "Child of BeOS", "BeOS?", "Let Me Tell You a Story", "Jean-Louis Gassée", "", "Worked for Apple in the 80s", "President Apple France", "Pushed Out By Then CEO John Sculley", "Wants To Start New Company", "Needs a Name", "Grabs a Dictionary", "Randomly Picks Be", "Be, Inc.", "Wants To Build a New Computer", "With No Legacy Cruft", "BeBox", "", "Das Blinkenlights", "Prototype Had A Couple Hobbit Processors", "", "No, AT&T Hobbit", "Production Models Used PowerPC", "Couldn't Find a Good OS", "So Decided to Build It", "Alas, BeOS", "", "Tried to Have a Poll for a New Name", "Nah, Kept BeOS", "Time Goes By", "Apple's Copland Project Fails", "Apple Needs a New OS Now Too", "Apple Offers Be $120 Million", "Then $200 Million", "", "Gassee Wants $400 Million", "Bad Idea", "Apple Balks", "Then Buys NeXT for $400 Million (oh the irony)", "Gets Back Steve Jobs and NeXTSTEP", "", "NeXTSTEP Becomes Foundation for Mac OS X", "Jobs Kills Mac Clone Market", "Be Adds Support for Intel Processors", "Has a Few Releases, Moderate Success", "Develops Cult Following", "Tries To Get BeOS on OEM PCs", "Microsoft Flexes Monopoly Muscle", "", "So, No BeOS Alongside Windows on OEM PCs", "Crap", "1999:
\"Focus Shift\"", "Gives Away BeOS R5 Personal Edition", "Open Sources Tracker and Deskbar", "Makes BeIA", "IA = Internet Appliance", "", "Ahead of Its Time (No Netbooks Yet)", "But A Market Failure", "2001:
Most Employees Are Laid Off", "August 2001:
Be, Inc. Sold to Palm for $11 Million", "Hmmm, Should Have Taken the $200 Million?", "Hindsight is 20/20", "Also August 2001:
OpenBeOS Project Started", "By Michael Phipps and Other BeOS Fans", "Will Rewrite BeOS As Open Source", "Piece By Piece", "Many Think This Is Crazy", "Phipps Decides to Start Small As a Test", "He and Some Others Recreate BeOS Screensaver Kit", "Binary and Source Compatible, It Actually Works", "Hmmm, This Might Be Possible After All", "April 2002:
an app_server Prototype Released", "", "OpenBeOS Progresses Bit By Bit", "2003:
I Get Involved", "2004:
We Need a New Name", "A Long List Is Made", "A Poll Is Taken", "Haiku Is Chosen From Culled List", "The BeOS Browser Was Called NetPositive", "NetPositive Had Haiku Error Messages", "These three are certain:", "Death, taxes, and site not found.", "You, victim of one.", "I'm Definitely Copying This In My New Browser", "Now Back To the Story", "April 2005:
First Graphical App Runs in Haiku", "July 2005:
Haiku Can Run Tracker", "October-December 2005:
Axel Dörfler Paid To Work on Haiku", "One of Our Brilliant Kernel Hackers", "Plus app_server, Tracker, Tons of Stuff", "August 2006:
Fifth Anniversary", "Bad Predictions of an Imminent Alpha Release Are Made", "Nonetheless, USB and Network Progress", "New Vector Icon Format Created", "Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF)", "Compact and Efficient, Unlike SVG", "Icon Contest Held", "Lots of Nice Designs", "", "Creator of HVIF Wins Contest", "That Would Be Stephan Aßmus, aka stippi", "Brilliant Programmer and Designer", "April 2008:
Haiku Becomes Self Hosting", "Means Haiku Can Be Built From Within Itself", "Kind of a Big Deal", "", "Ingo Weinhold Is a Big Part of This", "Another Brilliant Kernel Developer", "Axel, Stephan, Ingo: All German", "Must Be Something In the Water", "January 2009:
Michael Lotz Gets GCC4 Working in Haiku", "Michael Is Also a Genius", "Though Not German, He is Swiss", "I Need GCC4 For My WebKit Port", "Previously GCC4 Only Worked As A Cross Compiler", "Meaning You Must Compile Outside of Haiku", "This Is Quite A Pain", "Having a Native GCC4 Also Allows For a \"Hybrid\" Build of Haiku", "Run Old BeOS Programs And GCC4 Programs On Same System", "Best of Both Worlds", "Back To The Story", "Haiku Fixes and Improvements Continue", "August 2009:
We Decide It Is Time To Make An Alpha Release", "September 14 Is Eventually Decided As Release Day", "August 23, 2009:
An alpha1 Release Branch Is Created", "Various Fixes Are Made", "Nothing Critical Comes Up", "September 9, 2009:
The alpha1 Branch Is Frozen", "September 14, 2009:
Haiku R1/Alpha1 Is Released", "", "With a New Website Too", "So Far, So Good", "And The Work Continues Toward R1", "So, What Makes Haiku So Great?", "BeOS Was Pretty Cool", "So Therefore Haiku Inherits Some Of That", "Lots Of Buzzwords", "Pervasive Multithreading", "Symmetric Multiprocessing", "BeOS Was 10 Years Too Early", "Now We Have Tons of Multicore Processors", "Database-like File System", "Extensive Use of Attributes", "No Other OS Uses Attributes Like This", "C/C++ API Organized Into Kits", "Extensive Built In Media Support", "But Haiku Is Open Source", "Maybe You Have Heard of Open Source Software?", "Haiku Is MIT Licensed", "Comparing Haiku To Other Operating Systems", "Haiku vs Windows", "Haiku Is Open Source", "Haiku Is More Efficient", "Haiku Does Not Bake In DRM", "Haiku Has Less Legacy Cruft", "Haiku Actually Uses File System Attributes", "Haiku Does Not Have Transparent Window Borders", "Sorry But That Is Just Dumb", "Windows Has A Lot More Drivers", "Windows Has A Lot More Software", "Windows Has A Lot More Developers", "Haiku Can Of Course Gradually Improve On These", "Linux and the BSDs Have Helped the Driver Situation A Lot", "Haiku Is Mostly On Its Own For Software and Developers", "Haiku vs Mac OS X", "Haiku Does Not Impose a Hardware Tax", "Hackintoshes Don't Count", "Similar Advantages As Compared To Windows", "Mac OS X Runs Well On Apple Hardware", "Mac OS X Has Some Pretty Cool Software", "Mac OS X Also Has Many More Developers", "Haiku vs Linux Distros", "Haiku Is a Full Operating System", "Therefore It Is More Consistent", "Haiku Has One Primary GUI API", "Haiku Has One Primary File System", "Haiku Is Understandable As A Whole", "Haiku Is Designed For the Desktop", "Haiku Does Not Have X", "X Is An Anchor Around the Neck Of Linux (and the BSDs)", "Haiku Is Not Unix", "Haiku Is POSIX Compatible (Mostly)", "Linux Is Older, More Stable", "Linux Has A Lot Of Choice", "Though Choice Is Not Always Good", "", "Linux Has More Drivers And Developers Too", "Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Also Driven By Companies", "For Now Haiku Is On Its Own", "Purely Volunteer and Donation Driven", "But I Think We Have Done Pretty Well", "Demo Time", "Questions?", "haiku-os.org" ];