A-EON Technology acquires OctaMED

[Manu]

If so, they should not tempt us with "possible MorphOS and AROS versions". If they want a bounty or a pre-order system (I prefer the latter. Then we don't have to pay double for the products) then they should just make it happen and watch the money rolling in.

Add a "preorder for MorphOS" and "preorder for AROS (x86 and x64)" on your homepage, with a counter telling how many orders left that is needed and withdraw the money once it reaches zero.

Waiting for the community to figure out how to make money for you is kinda lazy :p

Exactly, it's just words they put on press releases. They don't mean anything by it , they are for sure not interested in supporting competition.

There's already lot's of applications that could be cross compiled already but it doesn't happen there's always an excuse for why they don't happen. Even if it perfectly could have been earning them income like good old shareware for example.

I have long ago realized AROS won't get a lot of good productivity software but that doesn't stop me supporting AROS The money I put in bounties for AROS is money I want to see develop the OS, I want to see how far it can go with the help of out bounty money.

Software is a whole other issue. In the meanwhile i learn to use Linux software that not only does the job better but have help online and a big community to get help from if/when needed and not to forget, tutorials. So keep your old legacy software I won't be using it and I know you don't want my money.

Old Amiga software is nostalgia, I can get that from UAE any day. Cutting edge productivity software is on my other partition on my computer it's just a matter of choosing Aros/Linux/windows from grub when I turn on my computer.

[Manu]

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise really, A-Eonkit make OS4 hardware so that is the focus of their software development too.  Other "Amiga-like" OSes are not really in their business model.

That was a nice way to put it, I have a different story but I don't feel like I want to be banned today.

[Manu]

I just can not imagine that porting something from one OS, to an OS that is heavily based upon the original, could be all that much drama in the end.

It's the best excuse ever, and it can never be questioned because they have the sources so they can claim whatever they want. I guess co-operating with coders from other camps is out of question too, even if they would port it for free or for a small symbolic sum. Let a few years pass and you'll see I was right here too.

[Manu]

which one did you choose from MorphEUS?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

Kamelito

None, I took the black pill. But you hey why not take the opportunity an make me look like a complete fool, port Octamed, Personal Paint to all platforms and have a huge laugh at my expense.

[Manu]

There wasnt'  black pill, only black suppository.

I didn't know there wasn't anymore but it was a pill when I took mine, I hope yours didn't hurt, just asking because you seem a litte ---hurt