| [Forum] Serious bug in IBrowse 2.3 | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Feb-2003 22:33 GMT by catohagen | 69 comments
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IBrowse 2.3 falsely claims MorphOS system is using AmigaOS.
Particularily misleading since MorphOS systems are reported as running AmigaOS 4.0 !!.
There exists a crude hack that just replace all "AmigaOS" strings with "MorphOS", and
"3.1", "3.5" and "3.9" with "1.1" or "1.2". Better solution should be provided by the IBrowse authors.
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| Posted by [JC] on 04-Feb-2003 02:11 GMT | Here is my view on all this.
If making an OS run apps at API level from a completely different OS was so grey area, Microsoft would've sued the authors of WINE by now several times over. Microsoft is even more against competing products than AInc is, and has more money and a better team of lawyers to hunt such things down.
It is not illegal to clone an API/ABI, and this is all MorphOS has to do to make Amiga apps run under it. Hell, with a 68K emulator and a suitable API/ABI layer, you could make Amiga apps run under Windows, MacOS or any other OS you like - as long as the API/ABI layer makes it appear to the app that it is running on AmigaOS (this only applies for OS-Legal apps obviously and not ones that hit the hardware).
The only reason Amiga Inc/Hyperion/Blind followers of the above spread such FUD about MorphOS is because it is serious competition to AmigaOS4, it is available now, and is getting a good following. Notice they do not spread such FUD against AROS... the only reason they do not do so is because they can take (steal?) bits from AROS for use in AmigaOS4.
As per usual, standard disclaimer: my opinions written here are my own and not neccesarily those of my employer e.p.i.c interactive gmbh. |
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