> I am not sure if Hyperion has any in house programmers.

They don't.

> for a project pursued primarily by two guys, part time, they have done
> a fairly competent job. [...] Maybe if Hyperion paid them enough to devote
> themselves to the project full time, things would happen more rapidly.

Allegedly, the Friedens were paid full time for work on OS4 until some years ago.

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