Open source for amiga?

[mikeymike]

Largely in agreement with KennyR's last post, but I would add to it that the open source movement has revitalised the software industry which was very much in stagnation.

A variety of opensource and commercial software is what's needed.  The advantage of OS4 being commercially-based is that its development will be much quicker than if it were opensource, unless all opensource developers everywhere for some random reason decided that OS4 was the "next big thing".

I think an opensource community developing anything for new Amiga platforms (A1/Peg) is a good thing.  Even Linux.  It gives the platform greater visibility to the techie community.

[mikeymike]

this must be the biggest non moderated thread ever on amiga.org , and seriously its about time it get moderated..

I think Christmas still has some time to wear off me yet, I'm still feeling half-asleep :-)

Guys, play nice, or I'll have to start editing your posts. I'm in far too good a mood to do this.  Don't break my good mood, because then I'll be annoyed.  And when I get annoyed, Mr Bigglesworth gets upset, and then people DIE!

(even edit your own posts if you now feel you went a bit overboard)

[mikeymike]

Then how do you explain the deaths or lack of use of many other open source OS's, including many of the DOS and Unix clones?

Simple.  Linux is the flavour of the moment.  Err, last 5 years or so.  :-)

[mikeymike]

Star Trek has been around for more than 30.

That's because it was GREAT! :-)

[mikeymike]

Honestly, If I had OS4 to play with in some reasonable manifestation.. and by that I mean more then a collection of screenshots, I would buy an AmigaOne.

Except of course you can't play with OS4 without an AmigaOne, so that means you'll never buy it.

Chicken: Egg scenario :-)