[News] IOSPIRIT freezes its own AMIGA-developments | ANN.lu |
Posted on 08-Mar-2004 11:53 GMT by Felix Schwarz | 69 comments View flat View list |
Felix Schwarz, with immediate effect, freezes the development of
fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and the IOUSB- and VHI-drivers. Medusa and
IBrowse are external developments and thus are not affected.
All products will stay in distribution. Whether the development will
be reactivated at a later point in time mainly depends on the further
economical and social development of the market and the profits made
with it.
The AMIGA-pages can be found at http://amiga.iospirit.de/ in the
future. Although www.iospirit.de currently still redirects to this
page, we nonetheless would be glad if existing hyperlinks in
AMIGA-context would be adapted accordingly.
Subsequently, you'll find an open letter from Felix Schwarz to the
AMIGA-community in all its occurences.
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Comment 1 | hooligan/dcs | Registered user | 08-Mar-2004 11:08 GMT |
Comment 2 | takemehomegrandma | Registered user | 08-Mar-2004 11:11 GMT |
Comment 3 | Don Cox | Registered user | 08-Mar-2004 11:22 GMT |
Comment 4 | Elwood | | 08-Mar-2004 12:03 GMT |
Comment 5 | Roj | | 08-Mar-2004 12:22 GMT |
Comment 6 | Christophe Decanini | Registered user | 08-Mar-2004 12:45 GMT |
Comment 7 | OneVision | | 08-Mar-2004 12:48 GMT |
Comment 8 | Anonymous | | 08-Mar-2004 13:07 GMT |
Comment 9 | spot | | 08-Mar-2004 13:24 GMT |
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 08-Mar-2004 13:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Roj): @ Roj
Yes he obviously is, but I actually think he might be quite unhappy with the "blue" side as well, for several reasons. And I also think he is unhappy about the fact that we are now talking about "sides" at all, when it really should be about how we in the the amiga community should grow as an united entity and gain momentum and importance compared to the the rest of the computing world.
> This is just more glaring evidence that the technological merits of both MOS
> and OS4 are much less important than growing up, putting all the crap in the
> past and working together.
Yes I agree. But I would also like to put another meaning to the term "grow up"; and that is about commercial viability. It is of course essential to any third party software developers (like IOSPIRIT and others) that the platform they are developing for gets widely spread and offers a big enough user base for them to make a living on. Todays micro market inside this community (adding together all "sides" here, including classic and amithlon and such) is far, far, far from enough for *anyone* to make a living on. What people are hoping for is a future viable market outside (what's left of) this traditional community, or rather expanding this communitys borders far out into fresh and furtile lands. Any technical advances on MorphOS or new hardware will be totally pointless if this won't happen. And if/when it happens, let's hope that IOSPIRIT un-freezes their development and comes back! |
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