AmiZilla Booty Splits Four Ways

[Pyromania]

For Immediate Release

September 28th, 2007

We are trying something new to stimulate AmiZilla development. The Booty is now available as a split if a team can successfully port it on their favorite Amiga OS type system. It breaks down this way.

Amiga OS 4.0 = Successful stable port of Firefox equals 25% of the AmiZilla Booty.

MorphOS = Successful stable port of Firefox equals 25% of the AmiZilla Booty.

AROS = Successful stable port of Firefox equals 25% of the AmiZilla Booty.

Amiga OS 3.1= Successful stable port of Firefox equals 25% of the AmiZilla Booty.

While it will be less money to the winner, if they are able to port to their favorite system it will mean that the technical difficulty's that some have complained about porting to 3.X are now removed. Also we believe that once one port is complete the others will fall into place. Of course if the same team did all four ports then they would get 100%. We hope this can push AmiZilla forward and not hold it back any longer. Donations are optional but always welcome if you feel this will push the contest forward.

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Best regards

DiscreetFX Partners

[BinoX]

I would change that slightly..

I think the person who ports it to any OS first should get 50% of the bounty and then the remainer will be split 3 ways..

This is because whoever gets a port done will get a bad deal because other people will (most likely) use their code as a base to port it over to the other OSes...

Just my thought on the matter

[keropi]

well said BinoX  :-)

[ajlwalker]

Also, can you donate solely to your preferred platform?

For example it now looks like a 3.1 port will be last, this may discourage 3.1 users from donating.  If they could donate exclusively to the 3.1 bounty it may help them "jump the queue".  It adds some competition between the bounties and hopefully attracts more cash?

[keropi]

is anyone working on the project ATM ?

[Manu]

@BinoX

Or he could just keep on porting to all flavours
before releasing anything and collect 100% of the bounty. That would be even better.

[BinoX]

I was working on my own port for a while.. but it's massively complex and I couldn't quite get my head around some (read as "a lot") of it

[hooligan]

Or maybe just forget the whole damn thing and mark it as mission:impossible? Seems it doesnt really matter if the bounty is 2500, 10.000 or 50.000 dollars, it will never get done.

[jorkany]

Just out of curiosity, what browser are people using to browse this site with now? I use FireFox.

[dammy]

Just out of curiosity, what browser are people using to browse this site with now? I use FireFox.

Ditto

Dammy

[ajlwalker]

Me too

[adolescent]

Why not pay the Sputnik author to do ports and/or release source code for the other operating systems?  IMHO, it's the best chance we have for a fully functional browser on OS3.1 systems.

[nBit7]

I think the person who ports it to any OS first should get 50% of the bounty and then the remainer will be split 3 ways..

I would suggest even more;  80-90%.
Once it is ported to any one of these Amiga like OS's it should be comparatively easy to port to another should it not?

[nBit7]

Or maybe just forget the whole damn thing and mark it as mission:impossible? Seems it doesnt really matter if the bounty is 2500, 10.000 or 50.000 dollars, it will never get done.

There most defiantly would be a bounty price that would see this project complete.  The problem is that no one can seriously take up the task as it is not a bounty assign to one person or group.  There is too much risk that someone would beat you.  If pay off on completion was assured and the money was likely to more than cover costs (at reasonable programmer wages) then I am sure a professional group would successfully take it on.

[Ants]

BinoX

I would change that slightly..

I think the person who ports it to any OS first should get 50% of the bounty and then the remainer will be split 3 ways..

This is because whoever gets a port done will get a bad deal because other people will (most likely) use their code as a base to port it over to the other OSes...

An OS4 port won't make it simple to do an OS3 port- they can use OS4 features like Linux lib (.so) support, we may still need to work out, plus there has been a lot of work done on the OS3 port already, so the Amizilla team really deserves some credit for all their OS3 work! And The OS4 port is most likely to be done first!

Plus a 4 way split is the most practical way to do it (any other way gets messy...), and the easiest to sell to the Amiga community!


-Ants
AmiZilla Coordinator