Public Release of MorphOS 2.6 & Introduction of PowerMac Support

[jj]

You could just as easily have used WinUAE and saved a lot of money if you're looking for nostalgia. Or buy a used classic Amiga. MOS is marketed as an alternative to OS4 and is touted to be "modern". It wasn't developed for the sake of nostalgia. It was developed with some backward compatibility in mind, hence the ability to run some apps from OS3.9 and earlier. MOS's strength is also its weakness. It's strength lies in being able to run native MOS apps at blazing speed. There just aren't very many apps. So sure, spend several hundred dollars for a dedicated MOS box and a copy of MOS to run pre-OS4 apps, but you can do it much cheaper and faster in WinUAE. Until some developers make some useful applications for MOS, my PegII will continue to be an expensive boat anchor taking up space in my basement.

£111 for small user base OS is not a lot to ask.   Its more about support than anything.  Compared to Win 7 or OSX then it is alacking in apps.  But that is hardly surprissing.   And the diffference in my opnion between running winUAE and MorphOS.  MorphOS wins hands down.

[jj]

Why should they ?
 
I have no doubt they are doing a lot of great work. But the same goes for the Haiku team for example... And you don't need to pay for it. You can donate, but don't have to.
 
Making people pay for it is their choice, I accept it. But they don't need to charge for it to continue: money pays for site hosting, computers/devices support, pizzas (),... but that's it.
 
I don't understand why on the Amiga everything needs to be paid for.

 
I also do not understand why the vast majority of people in the Amiga world think everything should be freaking free either.
 
If I had put the sort of work in required to write a PPC OS, i would very much like to have some token cash.