Merger between AmigaOne and Pegasos dev teams

[Samuar]

Here's a theory: An interesting solution to Amiga's development problems: merge the companies behind AmigaOne and Pegasos - to produce a real replacement and Amiga system environment. Such a radical thing might be what is needed to really re-start the Amiga following.

Somehow, though, I suspect it will never happen...

[downix]

You'd just have the Peg dev team, as the A1 is a licensed board, not designed by Eyetech itself.

[realstar]

Eyetech sells licensed Mai boards and don't
do any engineering so they may be an ok reseller
but not really involved in hardware development.

So you are left with only the Pegasos and
MorphOS teams anyway...

[Russ]

It will never happen. It is to late for that Hyperion
offered and Morph OS developers rejected the offer.
It is very amusing seeing 2 companies fighting over
so few customers. What a waist of talented programers.
Attacking MicroSoft was a admirable, attacking Amiga is
ludicrous.

[HMetal]

An interesting solution to Amiga's development problems: merge the companies behind AmigaOne and Pegasos..

Riiiiight.  Schmidt is so paranoid of the competition that he won't even let developers working for or with Amiga sit in his precious MorphOS IRC channel as they might be "moles."  :lol:

[downix]

@Russ

since when does Hyperion have anything to do with the AmigaONE nor Pegasos?  Nor have anything to offer in light of either platform.

Please keep the arguement to the topic at hand, which is A1 and Pegasos.

[downix]

@HMetal

And what does that have to do with the price of tea in china.

The topic clearly says Pegasos and AmigaONE, not "pick on your favorite developer."

Heck, I've never seen a Pegasos channel.

[Piru]

First of all, there seems to be so much interest to happenings on this channel, that "the competition" (as you put it), ran logging irc client on the channel, and certain high position person used these logs for his own purposes. The logging was done without permission, and the text was quoted without permission from the author.

Second, you were asked to leave the channel. And you did leave after some pretty civil discussion about the issue. What's the problem now mr Akey?

[bbrv]

Realistically, that will not happen with the core development teams.  But, it could happen with the broader community here:

A new kind of online experience!

After all, we are already a "Community" full of different opinions, ambitions and skills...exactly what one needs in setting up an online world.

Best regards,
Raquel and Bill  :-)

[jeffimix]

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So you're planning to release it on OS4 too? Or just A1 Linux? Ok, I just had to say that, since this is A1 vs. Pegasos... which isn't MOS vs. OS4 or Hyperion, or Eyetech, and I thought Genesi hired someone else to make their boards too (since it'd cost a fortune to make their own)

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[bbrv]

Hi Jeffmix, check it out:

bplan

...is part of:

Genesi

See answer there to the question who is Genesi...:-)

Best regards,
Raquel and Bill

[Warface]

Riiiiight. Schmidt is so paranoid of the competition that he won't even let developers working for or with Amiga sit in his precious MorphOS IRC channel as they might be "moles."

Just an outsider view (I'm not a developer).

Weeks after the MOS1.4 screenshot with gradients, antialiased fonts everywhere appeared, there were gradients and antialiased fonts in OS4. Coincidence?  Most probably, as these features were presumably planned for both in their initial stage. Yet the impressions are there.

And there is competition going on.  :-) As to either side is being paranoid... It's OS4 which has not a public beta to this day, and have all involved under NDA.

(To be honest, in the beginning I was a little mad at the OS4 developers, as when they begin their work they didn't know anything about morphos, and they didn't care. That changed by now)

Now we have two wheels, with minor differences.

Sorry for being off topic. But your personal insult Mr Akey was absolutely uncalled for.

[Samuar]

Does anyone believe opening up the source under the GNU General Purpose Licence (GPL) Agreement would benefit AmigaOS?

It could drastically speed up the development, and help the followers of Amiga to feel more involved - so that it becomes their AmigaOS, rather than a corporate thang.

[greenboy]

Samuar, you're beating a dead old nag that's been hauled away from the catfood factory so many times there's a rut there ; }

Companies aren't about to give away the store just because people are uncomfortable with the dichotomies. They already set course.

[Samuar]

What about convincing developers to leave their current projects, instead using their valuable skills on an open source project that could be available for ever?

I don't like to sound like an Anti-AmigaOS -ophile but, I dont have high hopes for AmigaOS 4. AmigaOne will only be worthwhile if the software is modern and useful.

I might be interested in porting a PPC Linux to AmigaOne or Pegasos. Already ported x86 Linux to SH4 based Sega Dreamcast :-)  Would anyone else be interested in creating or using said port?