Kathyone wrote:
If you want to know about Apple, check out darwin.org
the core of the OS is open source, and hundreds and even thousands of apps have already been ported.
Amiga OS 4 should release the core as open soure then others could port the software themselves. Open source is better than commercial. Why do you think Apple used it for the core of their OS. BSD Free Unix. OS4 is superior. Hyperion doesn't even answer their emails, neither does Amiga, INc. They don't talk to their customers. Apple gives free developers tools.
They make a profit because everything is open source. It allows you to have thousands of programmers at your side without paying a cent. They only thing they have to pay for is the Gui and the parts they have added on which is also mostly open source based. Objective C certainly was.
They just packaged it intelligently.
Kathy, it's not that simple. Apple spends $100 million or so a year on their OS development. MS spends several times as much.
Apple subsidizes that with millions of machine sales a year, as well as several million retail sales of the OS. MS sells 200 million copies a year, retail, and bundled.
Both companies have other software as well.
The various Amiga companies have had what? No money in, no product out.
Yes, they should repackage this to run on a Mac Mini, preferably with Intel chips.
But, even obsolete Apple hardware is much better than obsolete Amiga hardware.
