A-EON Technology acquires OctaMED

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They already said in the PPaint thread... if those communities get some bounty money together they may consider a port to AROS or MorphOS.  

Without, it's 68k and OS4 they're developing for.

And if I said the only way I will provide Finalwriter for aos4 is if aos4 users pay for both the development and then a copy how would I look?

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Real software publishers will port their software to a system if (and only if) the potential profits exceed the cost of creating that port. Spending a dollar to get less than a dollar back in sales is guaranteed to make your business fail.

Hans

That would be a valid argument if there was a large amount of development required to port between our platforms.

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Whose theorem is this research based on?  "Should" covers all manner of sins, doesn't it.

I can tell you from experience aos4 was the odd ball.

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My post was a factual correction to A6000's statement, and not necessarily a for/against argument. I have no idea if porting would be a simple recompile, or if there would be more work. It wouldn't surprise me if there would have to be at least a few platform-specific tweaks, though.

Incidentally, I don't see why the adverse reaction to A-EON specifically saying that they have the right to distribute Octamed on MorphOS & AROS too (and emulated Amigas). They're at least considering the possibility.

Hans

Typically those hooks would have more of an impact on low level stuff vs high level stuff.  


However as for the right to distribute it can be viewed in two ways.

A.)   Hey look we're willing to support all platforms.

or

B.)  Hey look we bought the rights for the other platforms so that it cannot be ported by anyone.


Which one it is I don't claim to know.   However each user will make up their minds as to which one they think it is.  

I know it's common in this community for people to claim that AROS users are cheap and not willing to pay for anything.  Well it's hard to argue with that since there has been next to nothing "commercial" available for AROS to prove otherwise.

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Honestly, if you own the rights; do as you like. Noone should hold a grudge over it.
As it is, everyone intrested in the ORIGINAL version of FW will find it by searching the net.
Its been "dead" for years, just like AeonKits aquisitions, so I cant bring myself to villify someone trying to modernize anicent products.

That said; im sure you would make several people happy if you ported to all "Amiga" branches.

There is no IF about Final Writer.  However as one of the designers of the old OpenAmiga standard I would be a hypocrite if I didn't practice what I preach.

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Well everybody knows that AEON are buying old software to upgrade them. Why don't you do the same or buy them first?

Well considering I already have done just that.

Quite frankly I'm really surprised by all they do as the ROI is so risky and random.
Why not join them instead of trying to compete and be disappointed?
Kamelito

I am neither competing nor disappointed.

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The deeper you try to read between the lines, the more likely it is that your conclusions are total BS.

Hans

To quote myself since you felt the need to only quote half quote me.

Which one it is I don't claim to know. However each user will make up their minds as to which one they think it is.

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Okay, let me respond to the bit that you felt I shouldn't have left out...

The deeper you try to read between the lines, the more likely it is that your conclusions are total BS.

Your two options are both based on trying to read between the lines of an announcement. I could probably come up with a number of different additional possible viewpoints based on varying assumptions, but that would be kind of pointless. There really is no need to be guessing at whether there is some hidden meaning or secret agenda.

Hans

You yourself bought into a theory.  Are you saying your own theory is BS?   I merely placed both viewpoints in a single post.

"I don't see why the adverse reaction to A-EON specifically saying that they have the right to distribute Octamed on MorphOS & AROS too (and emulated Amigas). They're at least considering the possibility."

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