@koan

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Who says we want someone sane?



@jcmarcos

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That's right. EU 7th programme gives away money, at least in my country. Friends of mine got 1 MEur funding for their skinny IT projects.

It's a matter of writting the application so that it fits the granting mission.

EDIT* nick typ0

[ Edited by DiskDoctor on 2010/5/25 23:08 ]

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Whaaat?!

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OK I exaggerated. The funding was up to 1M PLN which is 250 KEur.

Check out these projects and google-translate the titles:

http://poig.parp.gov.pl/index/index/982

All seem school projects to me, but maybe because my school was damn good.

Anyway EU can fund some innovative projects. MosDevs could apply for deployment of lightweight OS... or something.

Anyway that's doable!

> I truly believe that MorphOS2.4 is currently a better OS than AmigaOS4.1.1

And what about AmigaOS4.1.2? ;-)

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php?view=article&id=138

> Who speaks for MorphOS?

https://morph.zone/modules/news/article.php?storyid=542

;-)

Is there any more recent official declaration?

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2004...exactly.
Since then it has been quite, well, silent except for the announcement of new MorhOS versions

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Besides new versions what do you expect the official MorphOS Team members to share? Information about the weather or perhaps their love lives?

Seriously, I understand that most of us would like to know everything the team members think about the different possible directions that MorphOS could be taken in the future, what are the possibilities for new hardware, when the port to the G4 PowerMac will be finished, exactly which G4 PowerMac models will be supported and a couple dozen other similar questions, but you have to realize that if the team did start prematurely releasing such information, they would be swamped with hundreds of questions everyday and would not get any work done on MorphOS just reading all those questions, let alone trying to answer any of them.

The team is doing a good, no make that a "Great" job on MorphOS with the limited resources (time and people) that they have available to them. If you want faster progress and you have some coding skills maybe you can volunteer to work on some part of their work to help it get completed sooner. If not, you have little choice but to wait patiently with the rest of us for the next release, and the next, and the next.

I don't understand all that obsession about new hardware, coming from users... I could understand if it was about 'mainstream' x86 hardware, but we're talking about some exotic, limited run motherboards, overpriced for what they are, and in a few years no one around to provide the support. It may as well be a computer from alien spaceship

Tying the OS 4.x to hardware was seen by successive Ami** owners as the means of making a buck by milking users on hardware purchases, rather than focussing on OS itself. History has shown that such approach has failed, yet they're just keep on trying.

While discounting the x86 route, I think the developers made the best possible choice by porting MOS to Apple PPC platform. There is plenty of affordable hardware which will continue to be available for years to come... and that's not some questionable quality stuff - Apple does great, quality products. With regards to performance, I'm yet to see anything from Ami** camp that comes close to hardware that MOS can _now_ run on...

In terms of performance, only AROS on x86 is a contender, but it could never be a real desktop replacement while it is an unmanaged software development as it stands now. Yes, I'm eating the words I wrote some years ago but hey, I was too much of an optimist

It is not about the love live of the devs nor about everything they do, that I and other users want to know about.
It is simply about sharing some views and visions and telling a little bit what is going on.

> I wouldn't be surprised if my post still stands in 4 months time.

;-)