I thought I'd taken on a few of these in my time but no, I've seen it all now.. Thanks to Brian (aka Doggs) for this link. This guy just wants a Win32 compliant Operating System that has all the features of Windows but is better. He's willing to pay a whole 3k for it. Now, it's gotta be a joke right?? Thing is, the project creator has done/faked sincerity so well that some of the bidders actually seem serious and see no reason to spend the whole 3000 dollars. I know that contract programming is cheaper in India but this is frankly ridiculous. So I've decided I could do the project. My win32 compliant OS will unfortunately only support the Gaisan MysticCore (tm) Virtual Machine which mysteriously turns bytecode that appears to be repetitive gibberish into meaningful instructions for the Gaisan MysticAL processor. The OS he can have for free, the Virtual Machine will be 50 million dollars and the processor will be 10 times that :)
I'm pretty sure there are other companies out there looking for a Win32-compliant OS to replace the mess that is windows. Microsoft for starters...