Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
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connor wrote:
@amigadave
AFAIK this agreement exists, otherwise it would have been stopped in public by the MOS devs in the beginning.
AFAIK there never was an officially approved release of "FrankenMUI". But such petty formalities has of course never stopped Thore Böckelmann (the serial copyright infringer) et al, who simply wrote up something on their own based on some early beta-code they got a hold of.
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The more important question is whether OS4 guys WANT to license it.
Of course they don't. That would mean money going in the "wrong direction" (i.e. to developers), and this isn't really Hyperion's style.
Instead the OS4 development leader (who officially hates MUI BTW, like the Friedens and everyone else over there)
promise "MUI4" to the OS4 users, they create an unofficial fork that isn't fully compatible anyway, they name their creation "MUI4", and
release it through the official OS4 update system. But as a "contribution". No money spent.
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They are the only one who generate income with anything. OS3 does not sell anymore
Huh?
A standalone
Workbench 1.3 package with minor updates is being sold by Cloanto as we speak! As is
Workbench 2.1! As is
Workbench 3.1, which has some updates worth noticing, and this you could even get in the shape of real Floppy disks!
And all this (and more) is also part of the Amiga Forever package, as is Workbench 3.X which is more or less (and more
and less
) equal to H&P's AmigaOS 3.9 (minus a few things, but with later versions of many components, and some additional software bundled on top of it all).
All in all, I think it's a safe bet that Workbench outsell OS4 by a vast magnitude, both in money and units!
And it for sure it has more users! Both in emulation and on real Amigas!
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Then you will get t he answer from 95% of the Os4 guys that they abandon MUI because it is not OS4. For the same reason they favor ReAction. Then you can ask the same question you asked about the MOS team why not help MUI port to OS4 and others: why don’t they take the chance to spread ReAction instead to everywhere and make everyone use their GUI tool? So the bad feelings come because the OS4 devs and most of the OS4 users do not want to use MUI just because it is not OS4.
MorphOS got all the good Amiga "standards" (Poseidon, MUI, Cybergraphics, etc), OS4 got the leftovers. It's a "sour grapes" thing, as simple as that!
Sour Grapes
In an old fable by Aesop, a hungry fox noticed a bunch of juicy grapes hanging from a vine. After several failed attempts to reach the grapes, the fox gave up and insisted that he didn't want them anyway because they were probably sour.
Nowadays when somebody expresses sour grapes, it means that they put down something simply because they can't have it.
The phrase is often used incorrectly as another way to express bitterness or resentment.
"Winning a million dollars would just be a big hassle anyway."MorphOS is Amiga
done right! 
MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!
