Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
@ jcmarcos
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Meanwhile, Genesi's PowerDeveloper.org site shows much less activity than MorphZone.org, which is quite a surprise.
If you consider the target audience, it is not surprising at all.
Compared to the MorphZone developer forums, the old MorphOS Developer Connection website or Freescale's developer-centric IMXcommunity.org website, PowerDeveloper.org holds up quite well in terms of forum activity.
@ Jim
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Did Genesi write the OS?
Not all of it, but former employees and contractors of Genesi & Thendic France did contribute source code that is still being used in MorphOS today. Also, Genesi has licensed third-party components for MorphOS that are still being included in new OS distributions.
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Genesi paid out some cash, gave away some hardware, but when they were involved the only hardware later versions of MorphOS ran on was from Genesi/bPlan.
Actually, the Genesi management had been a proponent of a Mac port. The developers were not "held back" by any third parties to port MorphOS to other platforms.
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Genesi was motivated by profit, the MorphOS team can't be doing this soley for money
I would like to point out that Genesi has contributed time, money and other resources to keep MorphZone alive and well long after MorphOS became meaningless with regard to the company's commercial ambitions.
