Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> This is [...] using the same naming scheme.
That's because it's based on genuine 2006 MUI4 source code.
But the S/W they are releasing isn't the genuine MUI4; from that early beta they have developed it into someterhing slightly different and slightly incompatible, a bastard fork, a "frankenMUI" that despite being different is using the same name.
Quote:
> If Zune ends up with a clean room implementation of MUI4 and keeps calling
> it Zune, there is no issue. That's not what happened here.
Indeed, what happened here is no clean room implementation but a development based on genuine 2006 MUI4 source code.
Again, there is nothing "genuine" about this, it's a "dirty room", the reult of violating good faith by being granted access to the source tree in order to port a 3.9 version but took newer sources and used this as a base for an unofficial "MUI4" fork that is incompatible to the *real* MUI4, thus rendering an incompatible line S/W developed for it will be incompatible to MUI4 as well (making potential porting more difficult, etc), and still they call it "MUI4" and they call themselves "The MUI4 development team", falsely posing as the official developers of MUI. Similar to what once happened when Ralph S allowed access to SFS sources for an updated 3.1 port, only to see how they took it and created an unofficial and incompatible fork for competing OS4 using the same name. Not only confusing but also an example of abuse of good faith. In addendum, the "MUI4 development team" demonstrated their lack of respect on several occasions, first by removing the need for license key, then by repeatedly violating copyright. FrankenMUI is bad blood all the way through.
MorphOS is Amiga
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MorphOS NG will be AROS
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