[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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Posted by gz on 25-Apr-2002 16:58 GMT | I believe that MOS team will never be able to strike a deal with AI unless some kind of legal compromise is presented by AI.
It's obvious that MOS team don't want to give control of their project to AI.
They started their OS project way back when nobody even knew we would someday get a ppc os for amiga. Back then AI wasn't doing anything and happily let MOS team do their work without getting bothered. Only know when AI wants to control what's happening on the amiga market, they have developed a problem with MOS.
Untill this they have let MOS ppl be under the impression it's ok to work on it.
I hate the situation and I even understand AI's position as it's very good for them if they have some control over the market, but I can very well understand the position of MOS team aswell. If I had been coding and giving myself up 100% for years under the impression there are no legal problems for me to develop my work, I wouldn't give in either if suddenly someone would start trouble out of it. Especially when it's been ok for this "someone" for me to do my work for years.
people attack MOS because they feel betrayed by it, while I think AI should have made a clear legal statement aeons ago. They fucked up and caused this situation to get this far by not stepping up on the mos issue a loooong time ago.
I think they did it because they were hopefull they could partner with MOS ppl when the os would evolve to a point where it could be seen if it has future or not. Also history shows this as AI DID contact MOS team and asked if they could make "os4" out of MOS together. RS refused because all work was done by themselves and hadn't ever received anykind of help from AI for the project so they thought: WTF are these guys trying to get advantage of our work now?
I'm very much making it simpler than it is, but I believe this is MOS team's stand on the case and I can't say I blame them for that. However I think RS is too proud and should realize it would be better for EVERYONE if they could resolve this situation. |
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