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I don't think Acill was intending to be too confrontational to be honest. Almost everyone was taken aback by that IRC chat thing and it's just a reaction to that.
Since the clarification/damage/rumour control follow up was posted, things have calmed down some.
Unlike Acill, I am still a potential A1/OS4 customer...only thing holding me back is price.
I was bit of shocked that it came from Acill
I never expect such take from him, that was the main reason I replied at all, although it isnt the end of the world still I dont think it was needed at all, at least here and the way it was worded up.
Maybe Acill could explained well better his grief there, where it would make much more sense, or at least worded it better in this portal.
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We'd all love to say Long Live MorphOS wouldn't we? (Eternally hoping the dev team find a way to get another release out the door!)
I think thats not the case either, at least the way I see it, we've been too long on this to not actually come anything out of it... one thing that kept Amiga alive all this years was some sort of intelligentsia that was shaped along with its expertise. This allowed the technology to be meaningful enough to not die. That and the users themselves, many people doesnt change from windows because they dont even know there s an option, and the struggle to use Windows actually came even further when you use other systems showing whats so simple: money it isnt the all be all many think it is
If you see the three actual derivations of AmigaOS as one, as the natural progression to the original AmigaOS (AmigaOS 1 -> 3.1 anyone ;) everything makes much more sense, instead having arms fighting legs, fighting head we have all working along, they simply share way too much, and not taking advantage of it is simply a waste. We have Natural World where we can learn with millions of years of expertise, showing that in addition to the Survival of the Fittest where within the same specimen only the strongest survive, we have symbiotic relationships that have lasted millions of years showing its strengths, and intrinsic relationships in life itself (just look how cells are made).
If we join the three musketeers metaphor to it, maybe it then become more obvious, everyone who had read it know how despite being dissimilar in personalities, having the same ideals allowed them to achieve great goals under the umbrella of DArtagnan, which in our case might be Genesi, Amiga, Hyperion, AROS Open Source Community
So we have a multitude of musketeers (*UAE, Amithlon, MorphOS, AmigaOS, AROs), we have lots of D'Artagnans (Genesi, Amiga, Hyperion, AROS Open Source Community) so what we need more to evolution take place? A nice playground where everyone can joyfully play!
[ Edited by pixie on 2005/3/24 1:11 ]
pixie - writing from a paradise called Portugal