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[Fab]

Many of the posts on slashdot were right imho (re morphos). You just dont see it, and hence you will only have a small userbase and developers (such as myself) will stay away and work on other things.

The vast majority of the posts on slashdot are just totally irrelevant. They don't see the point of this project, so be it, but they can just skip the article instead of throwing so much nonsense.

And I also wonder why you always come with this "it's not opensource so i don't touch it" mantra. AmigaOS/MorphOS is not linux, you can contribute a lot and even code drivers without requiring access to the kernel. So dear Mr Developer, what do you really need access to the source for? What would you like to work on?

And if you need an excuse, just say you're not interested, it's better than this "it's not opensource" thing.

[Fab]

And while I'm not demanding or expecting anything, buzz has a point. For someone who's doing some impressive work based on other people's code, you show remarkably less enthusiasm for opening the MorphOS code. There might be valid reasons for that (like ego, and the OS4 paranoia fed by said ego), but "open sourcing isn't neccessary" doesn't sound very convincing, coming from you

In case you wouldn't have noticed, I provide the code for almost all my applications, especially if they're ports of opensource software. OS4 as well as AROS users could benefit from it (odyssey, mplayer, mame, ...). So i'm not sure your comment applies too well.

On the other hand, I don't think the OS code should be totally opened (they are some opensource parts in it, see above). It would be either like Ambient, noone except the team members themselves touching it, or  it would be a huge mess of confronting visions, forks and low quality code, like it happens in so many opensource projects.