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Posted on 12-Nov-2003 22:32 GMT by tokai | 75 comments View flat View list |
Maybe you remember the saying "The 'M' in Morphos stands for 'geek'!" ?
Yes, it's true and we MorphOS users are much more geeky than the other geeks from Linux and Co. Sadly it hasn't been possible for us ubergeeks
to enjoy a port of the ultimative geektool of the known universe
simply because nobody of us so called ubergeeks ported the damn thing.
I'm talking about MLdonkey. :)
But good news!!! A few months ago we locked CISC into a dingy cellar and
told him he couldn't come out until he finished the Objective-Caml port,
which was a required and important step for porting MLdonkey. We
haven't heard from him for a very long time, and we couldn't be bothered to
check. But all of a sudden he emerged from his dark dungeon.
Fortunately (or maybe I should better say: unfortunately ;) he had
finished OCaml and surprisingly also MLdonkey.
If you find CISC then thank him for this nifty port, sadly when I last saw
him he was running away screaming 'THE DARKNESS CONSUMES US! WE ARE ONE
WITH THE VOID!'.
Well, actually we've done this releases just for fun. The port is not
finished, it still misses a GUI (hey, isn't this more geeky than the Linux
version? Isn't it?). Also most of the 'Bonus' stuff was more or less been
done in a very creepy and probably unusabl... i mean geeky way. We're
still on the lookout for someone with some actual talent, so that we can all
kick back and boss him around. So if for some insane reason you wish
to volunteer in coding the MUI GUI then try to catch CISC on IRC or via
eMail, else don't bother him or he will run away again.
Anyway, here you find out more.
WE ARE SO GEEKY! WHOOHOO! :)
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Posted by gary_c on 13-Nov-2003 06:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (Anonymous): > Oh geez, you too? well, all I need now is for Fleecy to endorse this too, and then I know it's not even worth trying to write software for this platform.
Fleecy's actually in competition with this platform, which I'd expect you to know if you were in a position to write software for it. Anyway, if you're talking about Amiga, you know that there was piracy in that market for a lot longer than p2p programs have been around, so if people want to pirate, they'll have methods whether these programs are available or not.
> At least on Windoze they'll have Palladium, so even if you pirate software you won't be able to run it on the thieves' machine.
It's a difficult question, because of course software piracy is wrong and software authors have a right to be fairly compensated for their proprietary work. But we also have to think about contributors to the problem like single software applications that cost more than the machine they're running on (and this on desktop computers -- not workstations), and companies' shifting from sales to subscription programs solely to prop up profits, with no particular benefit for the customer. It's a circular problem, with a more repressive sales environment causing more consumers to rationalize piracy, which in turn causes companies to implement more "safeguards" that increase the product cost and reduce its convenience, further alienating the customer.
Maybe we need to break out of that cycle and assess all the factors. There are some innovations now in legitimate downloadable music for example. Genesi is also looking into such things, as I understand it. If you feel comfortable turning all responsibility over to Palladium, that's one option and you're free to use it. But personally I'd like to remain in control as a responsible customer as much as possible, which is one thing that attracts me to alternative platforms like Pegasos. And I can tell you that, as shown by things like the MorphOS SuperBundle arrangements, Genesi and Phoenix also want to be sure that the authors' interests are protected.
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