@takemehomegrandma
Your first problem was that you even enforce deadlines for a project like this in the first place. You can put a deadline on simple and more trivial things like SDL ports, but developing a native web browser!? Maybe it was foolish of Marcin to accept those terms at all in the first place, but it was done under heavy preassure and a lot of nagging as far as I remember. You would have gained so much by letting the deadline slip, but I think most people that follows the online discussions knows and understands the reason why you didn't.
Actually, there is no problem at all. Everyone has to work with deadlines, and this bounty was no different. Nor should it have been. The bounty deadline has already slipped significantly; it should have been done a year ago. Marcin decided to focus on other stuff which he has every right to do. However, he knew that missing the deadline could result in the bounty being cancelled.
Anyway, I see a lot of people cheering at this decision (which only shows how short sighted and ignorant some people really are), but you have let down a great number of people/contributors hoping for a *native* OS4 browser, you have kicked the legs on a developer of a great OS4 project and rendered all his work worthless, and you have clearly showed that OS4 bounties *can* be completely worthless. Anyway, not my loss, not in any way. *You* are the long term losers of this, and you seems to be totally happy with an SDL browser anyway.
You've been told often enough that OWB (and now netsurf) are native browsers, not just "quickie SDL ports" because they don't use SDL at all, but you insist on characterizing them as such. That is ignorance.
BTW, what is the deadline for the Amiga Mozilla bounty?
Perhaps it should have had a deadline. However, that bounty wasn't directed at any specific developer so the situation is different. IIRC, AROS bounties also have a deadline when a developer accepts the task.
Hans
