Poster: MikeB Date: 2002/12/5 14:40:35
@ Dammy
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No kidding! Where the hell did I ever say AOS was open source to begin with? Hint, I never have.
What I said at the time was that, if you believe open source to be the only possible and interesting future, why are you an AmigaOS or Amithlon fan, as both have been closed source since day one. I was just suprized to see my own arguments as yours.
I realize it's difficult for you to think with being told what to think by your Puppet Master, but I'll give it a shot anyways. It's inmaterial if I like AOS (closed) or Amithlon (closed and open) if it's going to succeed. What I have said was, without AOS becoming OSS'd (with whatever license that still protects it from commercial explotation like H&P have apparently already done) it's never going to reach critical mass. Not only that, who wants to take another bath on developing for an OS that's owner is usually in deep financial troubles and is likely to go under, yet again. If it was open sourced, then developers could be assured AOS would still be around, and therefor users would continue to be around, regardless of the owner's financial condition.
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I still say AmigaOS is doomed as it is, exactly because it wasn't OSS'd
And I believe the OS would be commercially doomed if the OS would be open sourced (which may also be impossible to do, due to 3rd party licensed code).
Third party coder's portions could be deleted and allow other developers to write a open source license replacement. As a commercial OS, it's not only doomed already, it died awhile back. WB 3.9 sales shows us that.
So, we disagree. The fact of the matter is that we don't own AmigaOS, so we cannot give the OS away or decide to open the sources.
Give it time, $5 maybe the winning bid in a few months. ;-)
IMO it would be very stupid to do this at this point, as Amiga Inc first had to pay millions of dollars for their IP and afterwards rivals could easily abuse their IP.
That has to be one of the most funnest things you've said in a long time. Here is H&P, no license for WB 3.9 nor AmigaXL/Amithlon and Amiga Inc is just sitting there, stinking up the joint as it rots away. A probably near perfect example of what you said would be wrong, and here it is coming to pass with a closed sourced OS.
Anyway your insults will continue no matter what, so further discussion with you would be useless. And actually I was only curious to know why you are trying to paint yourself of as a moralizer (especially within recent threads), and it is now obvious that you are just faking.
I'm more then willing to STFU, if you an Luca do the same. I can accept the war is over and the mop up battles will wrap up in a month or two. I can freely agree that we need to come together at the end and be unified. Pity you, your Puppet Masters, and Luca can't let the go of your elite standing in Amiga Inc that is about to be defunct.
Check with your Puppet Masters and Luca, then get back with me.
Dammy
Boycott: VMC, Haage&Partner, and Amigan Software
