Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 303 from 2005/11/21
From: UK
When someone signs up to a forum with a username of "humantarget" to respond to one particular thread then it is very clear that they are expecting to receive some tough questions.
The reason why I say that Dave's "evidence" is not hearsay is because according to the
story, Andy does not say that he did a code review of
MorphOS. The only person claiming that MorphOS is based on stolen sources is Dave.
Frankly, the difficulty in converting asm to C and doing a good job of it leads me to believe Ralph's story more.
I started to do a little research into this. In a
1996 interview, Dave said
Quote:
Either phase 5 is adpoting some other, unnamed OS, stealing the AmigaOS, offering up an ugly hack, or they're not shipping any new OS in 1997.
So even before Phase 5 released a finished PPC accelerator board or MorphOS was launched, Dave had the idea that Phase 5 were going to steal AmigaOS.