[News] Genesi evaluating interest in Rebol for Pegasos SDK | ANN.lu |
Posted on 09-Nov-2003 15:36 GMT by Martin 'Senex' Heine | 78 comments View flat View list |
Genesi has begun discussions with REBOL to integrate portions of REBOL into a free developer package for the MorphOS Developer Connection - or maybe even a full REBOL package for a "Pegasos SDK" covering all supported operating systems on Genesi's hardware. At MorphOS-News.de Genesi invites everyone to a brainstorming about interest in and advantages of REBOL's integration into MorphOS.
MorphOS-News.de reports:
"Genesi has begun discussions with REBOL to integrate portions of REBOL into a free developer package for the MorphOS Developer Connection. Genesi would pay REBOL a license fee for such a package and may bundle REBOL with the MorphOS SDK. The Corporate REBOL site can be found here.
All interested in such an arrangement, please express your interest here on this thread. Please be specific about your interest and the advantages you can see in the integration of REBOL into the next generation of MorphOS."
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Posted by Daniel Miller on 11-Nov-2003 12:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 69 (magnetic): magnetic says:
> The accusation of "dumping" is not at all accurate. That is not what
> Genesi is doing at all. The MorphOS release for Cyberstorm and
> Blizzard PPC on the classic Amiga range is for PROMOTION of the
> Operating System so that these people can see the speed and power of
> MorphOS and upgrade to a Pegasos board. This release should be seen as
> a Public Relation move and the Amiga community should be very thankful.
> The reason for the free release is what Christophe said, they dont have
> to provide support for old hacked Amiga systems.
Magnetic, I'm sure you just made a poor choice of words and that you know that I didn't make any "accusation." However Mr. "Parasitic Marketing" and Mr. "Amiga Compatibility within MorphOS is Based on Illegally Obtained Source Tapes" may make such an accusation, whether or not I forecast it here in a friendly post.
I understand the point about support for troubleshooting individual installs on the old hardware being costly and your logic that no-one will expect such support if the product is offered at no cost. The counterpoint to that is that the people in possession of PPC-accelerated Amigas are power users with a lot of know-how, which means they won't need so much support.
I agree with you that a lot of those users will be very thankful for a free, up-to-date MorphOS download for their hardware, but they would also be thankful if they paid a low price for an official CD and manual.
IMO Genesi could test or "prime" their distribution channels by offering such a software product at 29.95 or 39.95 or something. I'm just throwing ideas out there though! |
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