[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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AFUA visited Thendic-France : Comment 109 of 629 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Björn Hagström on 25-Apr-2002 09:45 GMT | In reply to Comment 82 (Anders Kjeldsen): To Anders Kjeldsen and whomever might be tuning in.
The following is only my personal view and should be treated as just that. People will undoubtfully twist and turn it, be offended by it or whatever as they usually do, but anyway..
MorphOS was a good idea at the time, a really good idea, there were no real direction coming out from the 'official' owners and an underground effort to continue the legacy of the Amiga was a glorious task. A little david fighting goliat.
But things have changed, there is no longer an occupying force on the city ground. The underground movement to throw them out is no longer needed. But the underground freedom movement is still fighting, even though it's the citys own people that have resumed control. The movement becoming a parasite rather than a hope for freedom it once were.
We have a company that bought the rights for the OS and has the full intention to move it forward. Had they not been interrested in that, then I would have surely supported MorphOS to the teeth. But that is not how reality looks, even though there are more than enough paranoid people talking about conspiracys and whatnot, questioning the motives of the new owners.
Should MorphOS just drop the ball? Well, the people behind it are not stupid. They knew exactly what they were getting themselves into. It was a gamble from day one.
Sure, hypothetically a company like Microsoft could have bought the IP. Would that have been a good thing? Well, that depends on what their intentions would have been doesn't it. If their intention was to not continue the Amiga saga in a way of my liking, then I would definitly have supported an underground movement no matter if it had been illegal or not. As was stated earlier, what is illegal does not define what is immoral, and what is immoral does not define what is illegal. Legal matters does in no way affect my views of the situation.
But we don't have Microsoft holding the IP. An underground movement is not needed anymore. All it does is to parasite what it was once trying to save.
Is having two OS'es on the Amiga market good because competition is good? Well, if it was on equal terms and both were 'licensed' to continue the saga then perhaps. But that is not the case. We have one part that cashed a lot of doe to extend the life of what we all hold dear, and one part that is capitalising the same area for personal interrests without paying a dime for it. Thus to me, what that part is doing is nothing but immoral.
And as I said, these are my personal views. Don't get all worked up about it.
/Björn |
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