Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2794 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
pega-1 Wrote:,
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Well, it was promised that the radeon r300 TinyGL 3D driver will be delivered by the usual suspects. This will be most likely Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen , Michal 'kiero' Wozniak and probably me (Nicolas mostly worked on the warp3d emulation layer in the past). It will of course be integrated into a future MorphOS update.
While any of us would appreciate a kind donation (the 3d.morphos-team.net paypal account is linked to bigfoot btw) to show support for our work, money is definitely not the driving force behind all this.
All the work that is done for MorphOS nowadays is basically restricted/limited by real life, family, real jobs and other stuff that distracts from demanding projects like MorphOS is ....
All the income that is generated by MorphOS registrations is mostly to keep the infrastructure running and protect the project progress for the foreseeable future - noone is making a living of this - just in case anyone wondered ....
Having read this forum for the past 4+ years, I understood all of the above to be true before you re-stated it. But I sometimes wonder if a voluntary monthly donation from as many users of MorphOS3.1 who wish to participate in such a way, could perhaps pay for a currently out of work MorphOS programmer, to work on MorphOS3.x full time. If enough users chose to participate in donating money each month toward maintaining MorphOS3.x, maybe there would be enough money raised each month to pay for more than one full time programmer? There might not be any MorphOS3.x programmers who are out of work at this time, but there might be one or two who hate their current jobs, who would be interested in working on MorphOS3.x full time, instead of keeping their current regular job(s), and would consider working on MorphOS3.x full time with pay, while he/they look for a better job(s). Not everyone likes there current jobs and someone might be interested in working full time on MorphOS3.x, instead of what they are currently doing. Even if it was only for 3 to 6 months, until that one developer found a better job and could no longer work full time on MorphOS3.x, how much could be completed during those 3 to 6 months? How much could be accomplished if a 2nd MorphOS Developer took advantage of this idea after the 1st programmer went back to a regular job and we got another 3 to 6 months of full time work on the next version of MorphOS3.x? I would hope that such an idea would be very productive, as I am sure programming could be more efficient when done several hours at once, instead of programmers working 1 to 3 hours of their spare time and then having to stop for "Real Life" and come back to what they were working on a day or two later.
Maybe this is a crazy and far fetched idea, but it would be great if we had one or more full time MorphOS Developers working on completing new features for MorphOS3.x. I would be willing to donate money monthly to this idea, IF there were any MorphOS Developers who were interested in taking advantage of this idea, AND there are enough other MorphOS3.x users who would also donate money each month to raise enough to pay the monthly expenses of one or more MorphOS Developers.
Yeah, crazy me. Always coming up with stupid ideas to support MorphOS3.x.
[ Edited by amigadave 07.09.2012 - 13:47 ]MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
