Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 188 from 2011/11/16
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@Cego
I agree with everything you wrote above. Official OS4 owners and managers as well as most of its users and supporters has done nothing but tormenting, haunting, and trying to shoot down the MorphOS project with FUD and BS legal threats since the very beginning. The owners of OS4 established themselves as crooks and scammers pretty early on, and the OS4 history is paved with profiteering on substandard and more or less broken stuff to a cheering crowd of misleads. And now when it has become obvious to most people that OS4 stalled in a ditch, then suddenly voices are raised about "cooperation", which in practice means nothing else than the MorphOS team should simply surrender and one-sided hand over everything valuable in the MorphOS to the people that has done nothing but fight and trying to kill MorphOS off in the past. "One-sided", because OS4 doesn't have anything needed or wanted by MorphOS.
Looking back from where we are now, it is obvious that OS4 was never more than a side track, a parenthesis, and a dead-end. It was always redundant, never offering anything to the community that an already existing option would do better. Let it fade away silently...
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Cego wrote:
and all of a sudden its about "we are all in the same boat". quite funny that this comes to mind when os4 is about to crash at the wall and os4 people realizing their Situation and future looks pretty bad. they've got OWB. that should be enough support. we've reached our hands.
Speaking of browsers as a "cooperation example", the difference between "Timberwolf" and "Odyssey" is very telling. The Timberwolf project bent over backwards in their effort to make an Open Source project proprietary in essence with the sole purpose of preventing MorphOS and AROS from benefiting the slightest from the community funded Open Source project. Cooperation? Then they grabbed the money and ran off before even releasing a functioning product. Odyssey on the other hand was a finished and good quality Amiga style browser on MorphOS that went from proprietary to open source for all parts of the community to benefit from. AROS has recently released the 1.25 version, for example.
you miss the topic... MUI is not only a OS feature, it is a GUI toolkit used in applications. So sharing MUI making chances higher getting softwre ported from other platforms. So even if both AROS and AmigaOS have nothing to offer what would be interesting then having a standardized MUI would offer benefits for MorphOS. And there is the strong point of AmigaOS, third party development (the weak part of MorphOS). So it is shortsighted to point at Hyperion and say we are against cooperation because they were bad to us in the past. But it is not important anyway, from AROS point of view I see not much of interest on the software side so if OWB perfectly works on Aros mission is accomplished, whatever MUI5 might have additionally.
