GPL MorphOS?

[iamaboringperson]

mdma wrote:
Seeing as Genesi are giving MorphOS away for free (as in beer) already, I think it would be advantages for them to completely corner the Amiga market by releasing the source under the GPL licence.  It would increase adoption of the OS considerably.  Maybe a merger with the AROS code?

Is there any legal reason you can't do this BBRV?

oh, I would LOVE to have the source code to morphos!!!
I would really benefit - im sure i would!  :-P

however, do you think the creators would get anything out of it? more sales? more profit? more anything??

certainly, if i had my own OS i would not give the source away! it would put me out of business!!!

 :-o

[iamaboringperson]

@mdma

you really have NO idea as to how the software industry works, do you?

Why would it be suicide?

with the source code out in the open, every damn programmer can obviously produce their own updates- add their own features. obviously this would mean that the makers of morphos would have no work to do - and therefore no sales - why buy form the makers of morphos when you can upgrade an os for free?

Q. What would they lose?

A. Customers. Cash Flow. Business!

Q.What would they gain?

A. Nothing.

Why buy AOS4 when you can download MOS-GPL for free. Run it on your old hardware for a while. Then, when it comes to buying new hardware, you buy a Peg2/3/4/5 (or whatever) as you are used to using MOS and all your software is written for MOS as it has the biggest user base. Is it suicide for RedHat, SuSE, et al releasing their code? No it isn't.

why release a good OS for free, if you can sell it?.
so once the user has bought the pegasos board, they already have MOS 1.0, they want to upgrade to 1.1 - "hmmm... to buy or modify the code?" they ask - i think you get the picture

[iamaboringperson]

Amiga died due to being closed. You can't argue with that.

erm.. well you can argue with that!
commodore died because of financial problems - of which, they would of had more if they had released amigaos for free - and continued paying the developers
- see the logic?

& the amiga is not dead... yet...

[iamaboringperson]

anyways... :roll:

its the developers choice what they do to morphos, so if they give it away free, or make it open source, or charge $2000 for it - thats for them to decide! not us

so there...

[iamaboringperson]

Bodie wrote:

Dagon wrote:
Capitalism RuLeZ

 
Damn straight! :-D

thats right!  :-)  :-)

[iamaboringperson]

oh.. free software is a GREAT idea!
you put hours and hours of your work into it, perhaps pay others to help.... and then give it all away for free! source included!!! thats a great idea...

[/sarcasm]

[iamaboringperson]

bloodline wrote:

BSD is going down the tubes... because of 'free'... since it cant profiet..

So why did Apple choose this "dying" platform as the basis of MacOS X?  :-)

apple can stick their proprietary software on top and make money from it!

they are not using much more than the kernal, the user interface & other software for maxOS X is excellent,so there is good reason people will pay money for it

there isnt much money in just kernel's these days, unless you make RTOS for embeded devices, but even then it wouldnt be very profitable