Request about OS Development

[Hans_]

Interestingly enough, AROS, both the x86_64 and 68K versions, were also written for free.  So again, if anyone thinks money is the cure for the Amiga's ills, they're sorely mistaken.

Sure, money alone solves nothing. However, imagine what would happen if everyone with AmigaOS development expertise could work on it full-time.** Progress would be a lot faster. What would it take to make that happen? Yep, that's right, they'd need to be paid so they can work full-time & still be able to buy food and put a roof over their head.

Hans

** Of course, I'm talking about focused development with well thought out priorities. Haphazard development rarely gets things moving in the right direction.

[Hans_]

That's pretty funny because people pay a LOT of $$ for OS4 and NG hardware yet both are  still stuck in 2003.  OS4 has rough feature parity with Windows 98 and I have cell phones that outperform NG PPC hardware.  So yep, that's right, charging boutique prices for OS4 and its hardware hasn't panned out like you suggest.

Where did I suggest "charging boutique prices for OS4 and its hardware?" I didn't use those words anywhere, nor did I imply it.

I'm simply pointing out that money could in fact help... if you found a suitable source of funds and used it for full-time "focused development with well thought out priorities." Where exactly you get those funds from is beside the point.

Hans

[Hans_]

Got any example of such an architecture?

AMD pays their own developers to work on the Radeon drivers & Linux kernel for their hardware. IBM pays developers for the Power architecture. Intel also has an open source team.

The organisations behind Linux distros like Red Hat & Ubuntu also pay developers to work on Linux (paid for by things such as enterprise support contracts).

Heck, Android is based on Linux and also has paid developers working on it.

A lot of money gets spent on Linux development.

Hans