Dave Haynie on MOS (cross posted from ANN) -old post referenced

[dammy]

 Interesting?  No.  Mike Bouma dredging up old crap cuz he is no longer moderating Amiga issues on OSNews (question has arisen if this was voluntary or forced) and wanted to strike out against Genesi on a MooBunny thread.

Back several months ago when the talk was about Buck eventually buying out the last of Amiga Inc's IP when they go bust (wonder if McEwen has had his house foreclosed on yet?), if Buch would turn over WB 3 to AROS.  AROS stated they didn't want the source code because it was, more or less, useless to them.  If WB 3 is useless to AROS, just how much use would it be to base any MOS on?  Remember, a fair portion of MOS uses AROS code.   It's not a huge step of faith to see there is no logical nor legal connection between MOS/AROS and WB3.

Can we now close the lid of this decaying old can of worms?  

Dammy

[dammy]

by Cass on 2003/8/18 13:04:55

First of all these are all hypotheses. But the point you're trying to make doesn't have any sense : several months before, WB3 code would be useless to everybody, so this isn't a valid statement. The whole argument was based on a "old can of worms" several years before

What doesn't make any sense is for Genesi to steal code that is outdated.  What so "we got to have it" code is there that would work on a modern system?  Bouma took swipes at MOS for AROS code, then he does this sad can of worms since the AROS linking didn't generate out outrage.    So if they took from AROS, why would they bother with WB3 then?

I really can't see Genesi (well, Ralph's) motivation to steal code for MOS when that code is dated and ment for a custom hardware.  

Dammy

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by Oldsmobile_Mike on 2003/8/18 13:35:18

How did DH get hooked up with them?

IIRC, alot of promises from Ryan and his mother plus a $10K initial paycheck.  That's before it was wildly known about those two.

Dammy