Here we can see some new interesting comments about the situation from kas1e at the Hyperion Entertainment Message Board! It seems some users are now really pissed off. :nervous:
Besides that the word "pissed" is a little too often for my taste... There are some fundamental questions... who does it? The number of volunteers in the amiga-community (with enough knowledge) is very limited (or better not-existing). The most who have experience already have their projects. So he (the user) does a good job to "piss-off kas1e". Who organizes it then? This user? I would predict that he does not do it (just requesting/expecting). Then there are other related problems. I read a discussion on amigans where kas1e explained some of the problems. OWB is "opensource" but somehow not. The sources are in development in a closed area where noone else can commit. That means that every sourcechange (for AROS/AmigaOS) has to be redone every time a new version is ported. People tend to forget so basically it all has to be redone every time (a lot of wasted time and energy). The second problem is important components like HTML5 player are not part of OWB but closed source components of MorphOS. Of course the GUI is MUI4 and that is closed source too. So every port of OWB is not only older than the actual/newest one, it is also worse. Someone discussed with me that he would prefer a Ambient port to Magellan for AROS. Here would the same happen as now with OWB.
For people interested to read:
http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5978&forum=29&post_id=80156#forumpost80156
