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Re: How Legal is MorphOS?
« on: June 27, 2010, 08:00:25 AM »
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How it is possible?


It is possible, because cloning API of an operating system, based on publicly available documentation, is perfectly legal.

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Re: How Legal is MorphOS?
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2010, 10:53:18 AM »
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Brand name means alot to alot of people and Amiga was the one brand that at that time in history had the technological edge over all its competitors

This is not the case anymore. While MorphOS continues developments based on frameworks founded by AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 programmers are determined to add random elements of other operating systems (Linux mainly). It is done to make ports of Linux programs easier. There is no innovation in OS4 and it slowly becomes a (poor) Linux emulator.

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Re: How Legal is MorphOS?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2010, 11:16:00 AM »
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So they are some documentations which says how AmigaOS 3.x behave in which situations? Do we have chance to find them are there opensource?

The complete AmigaOS 3 documentation has been officially released on "Amiga Developer CD". While it was not free of charge, it was publicly available and anyone (including me for example) could buy one.

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Re: How Legal is MorphOS?
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2010, 11:18:20 AM »
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Maybe, but MorphOS won't catch on in the real world that I live in.


Come on. It is not real. It's the Matrix. Wake up, Neo. ;-)