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Posted on 31-Oct-2000 20:25 GMT by Christian Kemp13 comments
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Seehund writes: As you may have noticed, the AmigaDE SDK for Windoze is US$99 even if you already have bought the SDK for Linux. However, it seems you have a chance to get the Windoze "sidegrade" for free in exchange for a submission of some of your work for the AmigaDE to Amiga's FTP site. Read the (sparse) details in Gary Peake's e-mail to the AMIOPEN mailing list below.
>On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:41:39 -0800, owner-open@amiga.com Patrick
>Roberts wrote:
>
>>A solution might be for freeware developers that want the
>>Windows SDK, to have Amiga do something like:
>>
>> "Port or write an (or n) application or library and post it to
>>ftp.amigadev.net, send us a letter requesting a free cross-upgrade to
>>Windows and we will review on case-by-case basis"
>
>OK Pat, you're on! :)
>
>Port or write an application, tool, or library and post it to
>ftp.amiagadev.net, send an email to gary@amiga.com requesting a free
>cross-upgrade to the Windows hosted version (also include the name of
>the app, tool or library you wrote or ported) and we will review on a
>case by case basis.
>
>I think this is fair to all.
>
>Sincerely,

In case anyone missed this exchange ...



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Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations & Support
Amiga Inc.
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AmigaDE SDK for Windoze "sidegrade" : Comment 13 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Bowman on 01-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Anonymous):
Hmm,
That sounds like a good idea..lets discourage people who are curious and might develop as we only want the serious "elite" coders working on the OS. Where the hell do you thin kthat new coders are going to come from.
The Amiga needs new blood in order to survive and you never know one of those curious coders could become the next John Carmack.
Anyway they should be giving the SDK away anyhow - it's outrageous to be charging for an incomplete dev kit anyhow when most of the core is free anyhow. Charging for it is precisely the way to stop people developing for it. The strength of Linux and the classic is that anyone with a C compiler can write code for it without purchasing something from a central point.
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