Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
@OlafSch & Fats,
I don't know either of you, or your experience with MorphOS, or anything Amiga, so please don't take anything I write here personally. I will only share my own experience and opinions on the topics of cooperation, the attitudes of some OS4 users/developers and the helpfulness of MorphOS Developers.
I became interested in MorphOS just shortly before version 2.0 was released. It took me a little while to understand the MorphOS community and it's differences from what I was used to, mostly from my membership at Amiga.org in previous years and the Riverside, CA Amiga User Group many years before. When I joined MorphZone.org, I was surprised and did not understand the lack of activity, when compared to Amiga.org. Although there was a lot of helpful people at A.org back then, there was also a modest amount of just "Noise", which has only gotten worse over the last few years. The responses to questions posted on MorphZone.org were usually much slower and fewer in coming, and there were some that did not show much patience for new users who asked questions that the person asking could have found the answers for themselves with a little effort. It seemed to me at the time that there were not many MorphOS users who were interested in helping new MorphOS users with simple or stupid questions that I was guilty of asking, so it took some adjusting on my part to understand the culture here. I think that more users are helpful here now than when I first started with MorphOS, which is a good thing. It appears to me that most MorphOS users are busy doing things with their systems, instead of hanging out on forum sites all day just to express their opinions, like some users on other sites.
On the topic of OS4 users being so hateful, I must agree that there are a handful of them that appear that way. But I would not agree that it is the majority, it is just the vocal few that make the majority of forum posts and get all the attention, which makes it appear that most of the OS4 users are this way. Having a few MorphOS users that seem to like to play the Devil's Advocate and stir up the OS4 users hornet's nest occasionally does not help the situation. We have bad apples on both sides.
I don't agree that there can be no cooperation between OS4 users and developers (third party) and MorphOS & AROS users and developers. There are some exceptions, but I think that the majority of users and developers now want at least tolerance and some are actively involved in cooperation and cross platform programming.
As for getting help from the MorphOS Development Team members, I think that many of the team members do provide help to a lot of people, but they are busy people and only help with specific projects when their time permits. They cannot help all the people requesting their time and assistance. The attitudes and methods used by the people asking for help greatly influence the outcome of them receiving help, or not.
Just my 2 cents, for what it is worth.
MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.