Kickstarter for buying and open source Amiga OS

[wawrzon]

instead of coming up with this stupid idea yet again use, test and contribute to aros on platform of your choice. be it on amiga (68k). help to make it faster and more stable. btw. even a simple smp implementation is underway just now.

[wawrzon]

But you "don't believe in open source".

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=745700&postcount=35

open source can be used in closed source forks usually. the only thing is to find some reason to make the people buy those when they can have it basically for free. so open source is the bottom line. aros might even become a resource for a new closed source paid for amiga os implementation if anyone ever bothered.

[wawrzon]

Well lets see:
- would this be 100% source-code compatible to anything written for AmigaOS3.x ?

- would this run stable while executing legacy code on a (non-existant) dual 680x0 setup ?

Noone ever said that it was impossible to write an SMP-OS with an API similar to AmigaOS running recompiled (and patched) SW.

we will see. this is a research operating system for a reason. stay assured that backwards compatibility subject has been discussed in depth, as customary on aros, to the point of taking hypothetic fpga 68k multicore systems into account. as far as i have seen aros x64 hosted already runs in smp, native x64 being implemented. this project was outlined and discussed just few days ago and subsequently been worked on by the person who made the proposal (jason) now joined by others.

[wawrzon]

@magnetic:
at least this thread was good for an off topic to make people aware of some grand ongoing developments. whats left for me to say? jason, michal, krzysztof, staf, nick and other aros devs ftw! others, please join them in discussion and effort for common good, as requested. it can only benefit us all.