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Re: Sputnik for AmigaOS bounty cancelled
« on: December 30, 2008, 11:29:23 AM »
Wow, this was extremely ugly. Kicking the legs away after several months of dedicated work, time that could have been spent better working on the MorphOS version. Well, now we know that one should *never* commit to an OS4 bounty, especially not for big and complicated projects with an uncertain time frame.

This is beyond low.

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Re: Sputnik for AmigaOS bounty cancelled
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2008, 03:18:12 PM »
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. 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. BTW, what is the deadline for the Amiga Mozilla bounty?
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Re: Sputnik for AmigaOS bounty cancelled
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2008, 03:21:37 PM »
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he was supposed to create some hardware or did he get some free hardware that now needs to be returned?


I sure hopes he sends back the hardware fast as hell, and I'm sure he will. OS4 hardware is utterly worthless to him now...
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Re: Sputnik for AmigaOS bounty cancelled
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2008, 04:17:27 PM »
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hey, it's blue trolling rearing it's ugly head again.


What's your problem? It hurts when I'm right?
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