AmigaDE for Pegasos PPC website

[JoannaK]

GGS: well. actually.. It was pointed to me bit over a year ago by some die-hard red trolls... My comments towards Ainc was too much for them  so they concluded I must be some 'Blue troll' ..  :-P

[Hammer]

Unfortunately that wont be the saving grace if incompatibilities arise via web services on the internet. This will become issue as it already has been an issue with IE versus Netscape... get my drift?

Netscape/AOL $crewed up with their version 6 and paid for it. Web services is one area of the whole MONO/dotNET package.

That's not the angle I'm hitting at and yeah I know about the multiple language support, which is a great concept on its own. But with Microsoft wanting to leverage its monopoly with Windows and finally overtake the web with dotNET, this multiple language support might be an oversight as far as the other guys are concerned. My thoughts on Java are really with the idea that Sun is willing to let others adopt that strategy into their own, and that's a better approach then trying to get dotGNU to mimic dotNET without error.

No one can stop the open source/Linux groups in borrowing the concepts from MS’s dotNET and create their own application and development ecosystem for Linux/GNU. The compatibility with MS’s dotNET is just the added bonus.

With dotNET ecosystem, it enables MS to deploy a single application title to be targeted for multiple HW platforms in transparently form.

This can be applied for Linux as well i.e. it reduces the user’s intervention in re-compiling applications between Linux X86 and Linux PPC (or what ever the CPU that is in vouge at that time).

MONO's deveopment is inline with Crossover-Office*, Trans-gamming* and WINE/WINEX* open source (mainly from the Linux camp) initiative.

[GGS]

Joanna:

Yes, it seems people tends to want to put people into some kind of camps for some reason.

My guess is that the most people can see advantages in different solutions, and that different solutions might fit in different cases.

Anyway, everything is always open for changes.

[NihilVor]

>How do you know what I buy ?  I know that Genesi and Amiga >are competitior, why shouldn't I know.

I was merely reading between the lines (thus I said "seems").  You suggested that Genesi would have nothing to gain from Amiga going under.  My suggestion is that it was a line of spin on their part because, whether true or not, Genesi acts as if they do have something to gain from that.

>However thats no reason for not having a businessrelation... >or ?

I'm sure Amiga has some good reasons (obvious reasons) for not wanting DE on Genesi, and in such a market it is understandable.  In my opinion, spending any amount of time porting DE might be considered a waste of time, and while I'm sure they'll put out a 4.X version, a Morphos version would just be a further waste.  

>And some questions to you also as you make some >statements;

>1; Who is the Amiga developers that Genesi have tried to >bring to court ?

The key to that is in the word "court," as in actively trying to get them to develop products for Morphos.  Not, "take them to court!"

As far as a question of bankrupting Amiga through the courts, bbvr doesn't actually deny that it might be something of an incentive (does this contradict the above--sure it does, but one can't expect them to come out and be that blunt) .  Think back to that ANN thread a few months ago.

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NihilVor:

Last post now.

Yes, I also see that that the respectively parts in this case can be seen as acting as they gain something from if the other is going under or disappear, and usually this is also what comes up to mind. I could imagine myself in thinking that way also.

However I still dont think any of them have anything to win out from this in the long run.

As from my point of view, I believe we should focus on the fact that different PPC-solutions is developed. Normally in a market, when costumers see that there is several, or at least some different solutions to choose from, that will make more possible interrested costumers considering any of them. Maybe that also will attract even more possible players to come into that market in a time. That is what I would like to consider as an important factor. Also competition normally is of good in this aspect.

As for the rest, about Amiga Inc having obviuos reason for not wanting DE on Genesi, I leave this passing by for the moment.