[News] AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Apr-2004 20:09 GMT by Mikey C | 283 comments View flat View list |
Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.
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Posted by Graham_nli on 17-Apr-2004 16:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 155 (XraalE): > The GNU foundation have already sued companies that abused their guidelines.
> Would you like to see Hyperion destroyed by such a legal action and OS4
> abandoned because of it?
> OS4, as commercial OS, probably even shouldn't USE gcc. It certainly shouldn't
> be BUNDLED with it. Then that whole CD comes under the GPL.
Someone had better tell Apple then ...
This whole GPL discussion is stupid.
1) The binaries aren't in the hands of the end users yet
2) Hyperion can recreate at any point from CVS the relevant codebase, in this case surely the state tagged "DEVELOPER BETA" or something.
3) Hyperion have fully complied with the GPL in the past, there is nothing to indicate that they won't in the future
4) Hyperion have already got the GCC AmigaOS4 stuff into the main GCC tree. I'm sure that GDB will be in the relevant main tree once they've tidied it up.
The only reason this discussion is here is because some people who aren't enamoured with Hyperion (you know who you are) are trying to stir up trouble. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that "Hyperion break GPL" stories have already been submitted to Slashdot. A lot of people in this community need to grow up.
On the other hand, I don't understand why Hyperion don't simply set up a public FTP somewhere with the GPL source code available to download. That would be the simplest option in my opinion, and they wouldn't have to worry about burning CDs for people who ask. |
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