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Offline Ilwrath

Well, I guess it's time for all the trolls who say they've "had it running" or "almost had it working" to come out and put up.  

Why do I suspect it'll be quite a while before we see anything, though?  

By the way, no one even mentions WHICH Amiga this is supposed to be for??  OS3.x?  OS4?  AmigaAnywhere?

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Great idea, Lets hope this generates some interest in the coders out there :-)


Someone needs to tell him!  He probably has a tough time reading this with that bucket over his head!  :-D
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2003, 12:23:08 AM »
@DaveP-

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I see. As someone who has had it running on an x-server and sort of working badly on reaction I guess you include me in that.


Whoa....  I think something got taken out of context here (or I mistyped it.)  Anyhow, my apologies for the confusion.  Actually, I'm not including you in that statement, at all.  I wasn't trying to include the people who have examined the Moz source and said "Holy crap!  This might compile, yet is such a cluster-f--- and can't easily be seperated out in any reasonable time, and would take many weeks to mould into anything close to a useable browsing experience on Amiga."

I was aiming for the people who have stated that it would be a weekend job, or they had it running but couldn't be arsed with posting a shred of source or executable anywhere.  I was aiming for the non-existant projects like the AMozilla and AMozillaX that never posted a thing other than fake websites.  And, I was hinting that this is a HUGE FREAKIN' PROJECT that (amazingly enough) we probably won't soon see results from, despite people (trolls) saying how easy it is and it's a weekend project.

I wasn't at all hinting that developers are slow, incompetent, incomplete, or money-grubbing.  

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Point is, if anyone does this now trolls ( like you - but I gave you the reaction you wanted so I guess Im feeding you ) are going to say "they only did it for the money" which runs against certainly my upbringing.


No, I wouldn't....  In fact, I suspect, that the $2300 and some raised so far wouldn't average out to US minimum wage for the number of hours required to generate something useful....

Maybe I've grown a bit cynical over the years, but I rather enjoy when other's blatent lies are called out, and the fact of the matter is, if porting Moz *IS* that easy, someone will do it.  $2300 is good pay for a weekend job.  Not so good for a several month job.  I suspect the later estimate is more appropriate here.

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See hell freeze over before those you just insulted "put up".


You have a nice day, too.   :-o