AmiZilla bounty cancelled

[jorkany]

Details here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5159

[Tension]

Bah bloody humbug!!

[Everblue]

Holy fekk

[countzero]

why do I get the feeling that they chickened out because somebody was actually going to get it ? (frieden bros)

[hooligan]

Sad day, and Amizilla was about to go beta any year now :-(

[quarkx]

I am not surprised at all. Funding a bounty for OS 4 and above you would have to be insane. Sher madness! OS4.1 is doomed from the get go, because the hardware is so bloody expensive - remember only about 1% of all Amigains will ever look at 4.1 unless they port it to a cheaper platform.

[tone007]

..boy, the air sure is clear up here!

-member of the proud 1%

[Argo]

Sad, but I think the bounty was just too big. I would have been better if it was broken down into parts. Like one for each variant with the over all bounty split between them.

One good thing is that the Amiga Community now has many bounties and bounty programs to promote them.

[Tajmaster]

I am not surprised at all. Funding a bounty for OS 4 and above you would have to be insane. Sher madness! OS4.1 is doomed from the get go, because the hardware is so bloody expensive - remember only about 1% of all Amigains will ever look at 4.1 unless they port it to a cheaper platform.

Out of interest, are there any plans to port Amiga OS 4.x to Mac PPC hardware now the legal stuff is settled?
 
Taj
 
PS, sorry if Ive broken any rules but not talking about the thread subject

[zylesea]

why do I get the feeling that they chickened out because somebody was actually going to get it ? (frieden bros)

Why shoud the fedens get that bounty when they
a) port FF (not Mozilla)
b) port it to only one of the 4 Amiga flavours
c) don't make the soure available

a) is of course a bit nitpicking, but b & c are not.

[zylesea]

Out of interest, are there any plans to port Amiga OS 4.x to Mac PPC hardware now the legal stuff is settled?

The "official" answer is no. But there was a "no" for the Pegasos version before, too.

[AmigaHeretic]

why do I get the feeling that they chickened out because somebody was actually going to get it ? (frieden bros)

Who was going to get it?  I have never hear of a Firefox project running on OS3.x, MorphOS, AROS?

Chicken out how?  Because of the money?  They ARE paying out the money back (paying back to the people who donated) How would it be different if they gave it to the winner instead of back to the donators?

If you are talking about the OS4 port, how would that make them scared.  If they had split in 1/4th that would be like $2500, but they are giving back like $5000 instead.