Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 874 from 2003/3/4
From: #AmigaZeux, Gu...
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Jim wrote:
>So I guess it was him who he gave the 2006 MUI4 source code to them and there was nothing illegal in developing the derivative per se, opposed to what some claim in this thread.
Not to my knowledge. MUI4 on OS4 seems entirely reverse-engineered from the same developer materials that they were replacing everyone's names on. I haven't heard anything about Stuntzi handing out code. Stuntzi only became aware some weeks after they released their hack, having had no idea of it beforehand.
Stunzi therefore not wanting to become involved in another Amigaish race to the bottom, told them they'd have to use MUI3's registration system, and was content (if not happy) when they agreed.
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So, in the end it would appear that the only real impropriety is the numbering scheme AND the borrowing of code.
Well that, and blatant theft.
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Which takes us back to the question of why they would want MUI compatibility (specially MUI4 compatibility) and that is obviously to run software written for MorphOS.
Flattering AND troubling.
Early in OS4 development, it still had the strong Hague&Partner/StormC brainwashing going on. Hence, it was believed, MUI was buggy crap and ClassAct/ReAction was truly the gadtools successor. Problem about ReAction though was that it was quite a lot more buggy than MUI, since it was a hell of a lot less real-world tested than MUI. It is also a lot more difficult to use in coding than MUI. Finally, it is feature-poor compared to MUI. There were a few very limited apps early on (such as Docky), but they petered out fast.
Now, add this to the fact that OS4 has had very few people with any coding skill for a decade now, so covetous eyes have turned to MorphOS apps like Odyssey. How do you port these without rewriting them? Oh... MUI4.
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Ah well, soon two out of three available new AmigaOne systems will be supported by MorphOS.
So...maybe the users should just switch.
If the users were that adept at logic, they would have abandoned ship when Eyetech fausted some broken evaluation board on them and buggered off. They prefer just to leech - that way they don't have to face reality. It is the only computing platform that unashamedly steals ideas and code from every other one and yet returns nothing but hate for it.
[ Edited by KennyR 04.10.2015 - 16:46 ]
