AmigaDE for Pegasos PPC website

[Rodney]

As far as i know, they havnt got it yet, but they seem confident about the court case Either way, i dont think its illegal to set up a site such as the one mentioned, not that you where saying it way, just that i know thats wat some people will think... At least, i dont think its illegal, doesnt seem to be...

[Rodney]

Thats a good point bbrv Hope it goes well for yall

[Rodney]

bhoggett wrote:
I think the timing is nothing more than another petty point-scoring exercise. Nothing at all can be done until the case is over, and even in the event of Genesi winning it, that does not accord them the rights to TAO's IP regardless of what their contract with Amiga Inc says.

What makes you think their trying to take over TAO's IP, or even use it? I dont see any reference to tao on that site. All their doing is providing a gateway for AmigaDE developers... nothing wrong with that, i could set up a similar site!

It's just a publicity stunt folks.

Hrmm, maybe... But probably not You think if they win, they'll just tear down the site and pretend it never existed? I doubt it, Genesi have shown their support to developers of open source systems and applciation programmers for morphos... I see just another effort by genesi to support people wishing to develop AmigaDE apps, with a focus towards PPC computers...

It looks a bit shifty because as far as we know, nothing has been decided in the courts and its not confirmed (or at least we know nothing of it) that the AmigaDE will be ported to PPC or indeed Morphos. However, if there ever is an LinuxPPC version, Genesi can take advantage of that and provide a developer community for it. Anyway, Maybe bbrv has some information they're not ready to release? Who knows...

[Rodney]

For F@#k sake every body. Its just a web site! I dont understand what you'r all worried about!

also i think it was Gary C that said it... I also thought that intent ran on PPC. I was told this about a year ago i think by someone at Amiga Inc... maybe fleecy? Cant remember.

[Rodney]

Tomas wrote:

Some people have been saying it's technically impossible to port DE to Pegasos/MorphOS, and at the same time these same people keep forgetting it's won't be much different to Aone/OS4 target. So.. Is it impossible or not?

i have to say i agree there.. the systems are not all that different...
Though i really have hard to see why genesis want this... it was a total failure.. seems like they only do this to harm amigainc.. That is what I believe atleast

People bashed amigainc for the idea of AmigaDE, but still they want it? makes no sense

Dont they want it so that they can call their computers Amiga's? I think thats their primary reasoning behind it. Which is just business... Again, you might all care because it'll take the focus off the real AmigaOS, but boo hoo

btw - even if morphos was totaly different to AmigaOS, does that mean it would be impossible to port? I find these questions "can we port this product to this platform" confusing... You can port anything to anything. Its just another program running on another platofrom

[Rodney]

Waccoon wrote:
I don't see any benefit to anybody since DE has not really been demonstrated.  Most people are at a loss as to what DE really is and is supposed to do.  Being dead quiet for nearly four years after "buying" the Amiga name tends to do that.  Personally, I feel Amiga has been dead for two years and won't release anything.  If that's not true, they sure haven't been trying hard to convince us otherwise.

Why use DE and Ami2D when you can use PTL natively on practically any OS?

Well its not big atm, but remember Amiga Incs long term plan is to get AmigaOS running through the DE, which is a grand idea. Much like the .net strategy without all the webservices crap.

Thats a long way off and by the looks of things at Amiga Inc, it may not ever get to that stage so theres no real point in duscussing it. Genesi basically want the DE so they can get some of the Amiga's naming rights... That is, it would be cool to call the pegasos an Amiga That may seem like robery to some, but its just business.

[Rodney]

Hammer wrote:
That web services crap is for MIS (Managed Information Systems) i.e. related to eBusiness based solutions. Secondly, dotNET framework  compatible MONO is open sourced.

Ahhh, yer i know mono is open source, did i even say it wasnt? And doesnt .Net facilitate the development of webservices? That is, .NEt helps you build XML Web services, right?