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Intuition wrote:
So the OS4 update mechanism isn't controlled by Hyperion? Interesting.....
Hyperion is known for not having controll over even the most basics things (updates that completley fail on user HW, websites down for weeks every few months ....).
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Has Stuntzi made any public statements about this debacle?
I was previously under the impression that MUI4 had been bought by the MorphOS Team at some point and now belongs to them, but I'm not sure why I had this idea.
AFAIK&R:
- laire got the MUI3.8 sources sometime in 2001 and ported them to PPC
- this was released as MUI3.9 for MorphOS0.4 and went back into Stuntzi's SVN/CVS/?
- in 2002 Hyperion bought a copy of those 3.9 sources with the provision that any binary made from them would still require a keyfile
- Stuntzi was just like a bunch of other MorphOS developers hired by Genesi/Thendic
- that didn't end so well
- ca. 2005 Stuntzi started work on MUI4
- from 2007 till now MUI has been advanced by some MorphOS-team members to 4.2 with some input from Stuntzi
- ca 2012 some OS4 contributors started retrofitting MUI4.x features into the MUI3.9 source tree (wether that was in the scope of the contract with Stuntzi is unknown)
Dates are just rough guestimates.
[ Edited by Kronos 19.01.2014 - 08:56 ]
