Any interest in a crowdfunding for a WebKit based browser for OS4?

[ferrellsl]

@wawrzon Nobody is asking for any money now, I just answered realistically to a question about what the budget would need to be. Perhaps you all don't understand how crowdfunding works, but no one person is going to be asked for five figures. If there were 5000 active amigaos4 users, who all paid $10, that would go a long way to getting professionals involved, not the amateurs you've had in recent years. And these are professionals - they write the YouTube, Hulu, iPlayer and countless other web and VOD apps you have on your PS3, 4 and Vita.

As for OWB, it's wildly out of date. The point is to give you all the ability to run html5, google docs, office365, gmail and even write new apps using an amiga version of Electron.

But hey, if you guys don't want it, that's fine, that's the message I'm getting from the market research I'm doing here. You'd all rather just snipe at each other.

Don't take the earlier comments personally.  They're just still a bit angry over the TimberWolf/Firefox debacle.  There was a crowd funded effort to port FireFox to OS4 a few years ago and the programmers (the infamous Frieden brothers) promised to release their code as open source once they were fully funded and finished with the project.  It took them over 2 years and what they produced was a steaming pile.  And then it was another 2-3 years before they even released the sources, without any make files or other supporting libraries or documentation.  So no one could even pick up where they left off.  TimberWolf was extremely buggy and crash prone and later OS4 updates kept many users from even being able to run TimberWolf whatsoever.

The earlier smart-alec comments were probably made because they assumed you know about the entire fiasco that was TimberWolf.

[ferrellsl]

unfortunately
@wawrzonif there were 5000 active amigaos4 users

there aint that many. certainly there aint that many donors. you will probably should consider yourself happy if you will find a few hundred donors in the whole amiga community, including all offshoots. thats the reality of the situation.

@ferrellsl

Don't take the earlier comments personally.  They're just still a bit angry over the TimberWolf/Firefox debacle.

im not angry. i have not even supported this bounty as it was clear to me where it was going from the start with. im just actually trying to provide some context within which such a project could be approached.

@wawrzon
My comments were not aimed at you specifically.  I was replying to NinjaCyborg and forgot to put the @NinjaCyborg at the top of my post.  You've done a good job as far as context goes and I agree with you.  And there are others who are rightly cynical when someone out of the blue shows up here and wants to undertake such a huge project via crowd sourcing, and the cynicism showed in their comments.  I was going to write a smart-alec response myself to NinjaCyborg until I noticed how few posts he has made here.

Based on the number of posts by NinjaCyborg when he started this thread (less than 50) one can assume that he's not been actively following such Amiga events as Timberwolf or even OS4 for quite some time, if at all. So I can understand why he got his feelings hurt.