Fine that old keyfiles work.
Why can the "MUI for AmigaOS"-development team not generate and sell new keyfiles for their piece of work
The "MUI for AmigaOS" team 'accidentally' released a version that did no longer require a keyfile. I don't think Mr. Stuntz is too keen on letting them handle registrations.
AFAIR, you needed a license key to be able to use MUI 3.8 for GUI development.
No, you only need a keyfile if you want to
use MUI to its full extent, developing for it never was a problem.
You do have to pay licensing
fees though, if you're selling a commercial application that requires MUI. That's why there's so few commercial releases using MUI (Drawstudio, Ibrowse...?) and lots of 'Shareware' releases.
I deem it 'higher nonsense' to offer a new, updated piece of software that requires license keys of an old and no longer supported version, that can't be bought anymore...
Agreed. Not to mention that AmigaOS has its very own GUI system which could use some attention aswell.
Jens and Thore are pushing MUI, because it benefits their cross-plattform approach (YAM...). For AmigaOS users (and, to a lesser extent, MorphOS and AROS people) this simply means that the amount of applications not properly adopted to OS4 (i.e. using Ringhio and application.library, OS4's support for translating codepages into the native ISO-8859 etc.) is going to increase.
It's like 1995/1996 all over again: no leadership, no strategy, no money - the obvious result is bedroom coders doing whatever they feel like doing.
