bhoggett wrote:
While I accept Fabio's point that it is asn't "an AROS decision" because no one makes policy decisions, it is damaging to AROS progress nevertheless. IMHO, the lack of policy making in the AROS project is one of its greatest weaknesses.
Bill,
AROS is Open Source, this means that anyone can take its sources and do whatever he wants with it, even port it to the Efika. On the same fashion, anyone is free to offer as much money as he wants in order to incentive the port: there's an offer waiting for demand, a demand which might not be there at all in the first place.
In fact, if you haven't noticed it, no one has taken up on the bounty yet.
It would be damaging to AROS if and only if
1) someone had taken up on the bounty
and
2) by accepting the bounty, that person would subtract valuable time to other kind of AROS development.
Considering that (1) hasn't happened yet and (2) is quite unlikely to be the case, there's simply no damage being done.
I personally don't have any interest in porting AROS to the Efika, and if I have to go for the money I will certainly go for the bigger one, and that's not the bounty we're talking about.