Posted on 15-Jul-2003 12:55 GMT by Lewis Mistreated | 160 comments View flat View list |
Amiga Inc. started out a competition giving the chance to graphix artists to see their pics published on the forthcoming AmigaOS 4.0 cd.
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Posted by samface on 20-Jul-2003 10:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 150 (Anonymous): Where do you get your information? The MorphOS project was announced back in 1997. That's six years ago. The AROS project was started as early as 1993, 10 years ago. The current owners of Amiga Inc. didn't come into the picture until 1999 and has done far more than Gateway ever did for the Amiga community.
The decision to license the AmigaOS3.1 for emulation was a good decission because not licensing it wouldn't stop such emulators from existing. WinUAE is a perfect example of that. You see, if you get those products licensed, atleast you get some form of control over the use of their IP rather than having illegal versions floating around. Sure, the illegal versions still exists, but thanks to AmigaForever, there is atleast a legal option for those without Amiga hardware but still wanting to support the community.
As for the Amiga user or not discussion, we need to seperate the terms Amiga users and Amiga community members. You see, if I sponsor Amiga related evenst, sell Amiga products, spend most of my time with Amigans, sympathize with Amigans, BUT I don't own an Amiga myself and has never used one myself. Am I an Amiga user? No. Part of the Amiga community? Yes.
My definition of an Amiga user stands. As for who is a part of the Amiga community or not, it's all about beeing a part of a community where everyone has the same interest and works towards a common goal. There is a split in the community, not only because we are using different products, but because we don't have the same interests and are not working towards a common goal anymore. Supporting MorphOS is NOT supporting AROS nor AmigaOS4 because neither is compatible with MorphOS specific applications nor hardware. The same goes for all three alternatives.
BTW, Amiga Inc. isn't the only ones making promises and failing to keep them. MorphOS was supposed to be ready for release back in 2000 already, and current versions of MorphOS still has an incomplete workbench replacement. I'd say we might actually have a complete workbench replacement for MorphOS by the time they release MorphOS2.0. AROS has been developed for 10 years, but I don't want to rub it in for the guys working on it. However, considering these facts, has progress on AmigaOS4 really been that slow? I say I'm impressed by the speed they got a fully working PPC version of AmigaOS running. |
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