We NEED AmigaOS to go open source

[paolone]

@gazgod
If open source were going to save the Amiga, AROS would be far better developed than AOS4.1.  Now, don't get me wrong.  I'm very much in favour of AROS.  I just don't think that AmigaOS should follow suit.

AROS would have been far better developed if many people just opened their eyes in 1995-2005. Most amigans, however, preferred to whine about how unluck their platform was, to wait for any deus-ex-machina god-like savior for the Amiga, to dream about "the comeback", and just ignored or even laughed behind the AROS project which was, consequently and obviously, unable to perform so many tasks: you can't write a whole OS in a month.

In the meanwhile, the whole Amiga platform suffered the progressing loss of brains and harms, which would have been really useful instead. How many good developers have we lost, for the new AmigaOS/AmigaOnes being so late? How many good developers would have we kept or attracted, if only most people helped, endorsed or at least respected the one and only community-driven effort to keep the Amiga philosophy alive and kickin'?

Today we would have a strong AROS and even stronger AmigaOS and MorphOS, since there's no motivation why the last two should have not used our code and/or solutions. People now respect AROS because Icaros has proven what it can do, because it has come to a good degree of reliability, and because it includes some of the most advanced technologies on any Amiga flavour, like Poseidon and Gallium3D: but just try to imagine what it could be, if only people did that all the time!

[paolone]

AROS looks interesting.  Too bad I don't know how to code or I would help out.  Well, if you need anything coded in BASIC I might be able to help ya.  :roflmao:

And why not!? we have at least two basic interpreters (with the SDL one being so nice with graphics and so): you may loose some time to test it and to see if it's actually working as expected.

People simply can't believe how valuable their work can be, even if they don't know anything about coding. Just look at me: C and old aramaic are the same for me, but I just managed to build the leading AROS distribution. Not too bad for a not-programmer, isn't it? ;-)

[paolone]

If you talk about wasting time on a certain OS then if you look at it rationally only Linux is the good choice. No matter which of the three you choose, they are always going to lag behind the most current developments in hardware.

"Wasting time" is a meaningless expression, when you "loose" time coding something that someone else will use (or will spend time on, using it): at least, it's no more wasting time than playing a soccer match with friends, or listening to music, or watching a movie. Once time has gone, has gone. The difference is that playing, listening or watching, you haven't done anything useful for anyone else.

On the other hand, I don't use MacOS X anymore: so, isn't all the time spent on MacOS X from others, just "wasted" as well? Are we entitled to say "you're working on something I don't/won't use: you're wasting your time"? I'll probably never use MorphOS: not 'cos I don't like it (I actually like it), but 'cos I won't get any hardware to run it on and I don't see any motivation to spend money to use it... Is any development on MOS a waste of time? I can go on forever.

There are people who don't care about Linux or Windows or just AmigaOS: they prefer to develop on/for AROS... is that so bad? ;-)

[paolone]

It makes your head spin around wondering what happened to the good old Amiga community but I have read comments from die-hard OS4.1 fanatics that AROS is a threat to the "real Amiga" (AmigaOS4.x). They mean AROS just splits up the community, the community should be running AmigaOS4.x because that is the true AmigaOS of the Amiga world, ie, AmigaOS4.x is the real Amiga. Such OS as AROS and MorphOS do more damage to the Amiga world than good according to some opinions I have witnessed on Amiga message boards.

Yes... yes... Every town has their own. :rolleyes: