Sorry to hear this, but nevertheless the bounty somehow served it's purpose....it made us all belive in bountys for the amiga platform. We saw the Amizilla bounty grow, which showed us all that it could be done. The fact that nobody took on the bounty is not the most important message here.

Thanks Discreet and former netscape man for trying hard....you did something good even though it did'nt turn out the way it was meant to. But perhaps you guys started a wave, which was very important for the platform....think about that! - and forgive people for mistrusting the bounty....after all we heard nothing about it for quite some time, which can give room for wild speculations.

Anyway i think you guys earned some street respect with this!

And after all what is better than street respect ?

Last edited by Hondo on 20-Nov-2009 at 07:09 AM.

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It's sad to hear this but it's probably the right thing to do. Amizilla didn't give us firefox but it made me believe for a long time that we one day would have a modern browser and that was very good.
Now we have OWB and timberwolf is progressing nicely.

I Hope this will increase the timberwolf bounty even more.

Hello,

give the bounty to netsurf or OWB author or to another project interesting to the amiga.

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I think refunds would be the way to go. That way folks could chose to support the open toaster, timberwolf or any other use of their money.

@all

Am I the only one that finds it "strange" that the booty ends, now that there is a real chance of getting FireFox on Amiga - why isn't the Netscape money or part of it transfered to Timberwolf?

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@DiscreetFX

I can't remember if I ever made a donation.. How do I check that now that the site is
more or less closed?

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Avatar by HNL_DK!

This is good news. The Frieden's have already done much more than Amizilla.
It would have been a shame for Amizilla to continue.

The bad news are rumors the Netscape Executive is talking about. :-/

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I've never heard of the rumors - but i have had the same thoughts myself as the tumors.

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@Samwel

Send us your full name and or e-mail address linked to your Paypal and we can check for you.

@bitman

The former Netscape executive did not like his ethics questioned and was insulted by that. He chose to end a contest that programmers were making no progress on and that was taking far too long. He did not want an endless contest to reflect badly on himself and DiscreetFX.

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Quote:

Am I the only one that finds it "strange" that the booty ends, now that there is a real chance of getting FireFox on Amiga - why isn't the Netscape money or part of it transfered to Timberwolf?

Because it's another bounty, some people do not like that timberwolf is a OS4 only port and some don't like that it's closed source.

I'm mostly into OS4 so i wouldn't mind but if they were transfered but others have other opinions

bitman wrote:
Quote:

Am I the only one that finds it "strange" that the booty ends, now that there is a real chance of getting FireFox on Amiga - why isn't the Netscape money or part of it transfered to Timberwolf?

I don't find it strange at all that the bounty ends. Should have happened years ago, since no real work has been done on it for a long time. The "progress" reports always sounded like a lot of waffle to me.
The bounty is not for Firefox. That's why the money cannot be transferred. Transferring the money requires the consent of the donators.

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@polka

Sure, but if the "netscape executive" cared about Amiga and Mozilla/FireFox - he could transfer all or part of his donation to Timberwolf...

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@bitman

Maybe he would have done that if people had not ####ed him off.

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Sure, but if the "netscape executive" cared about Amiga and Mozilla/FireFox - he could transfer all or part of his donation to Timberwolf...

Yes, he could do that. Maybe he just lost interest in Amiga, partly due to this disappointing experience. Lots of talk, but little work which was done.
Probably more time was spent on designing the Amizilla logos and writing announcements than on actually coding.

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@Samwel

List of donors from August 2008:

1. Bill P $2000, Please Keep the Dream Alive!

2. Twistin Ghost $100, Amiga Rules!

3. Racqqneyes $50, I have fond memories of Amiga.

4. Syke $20, CSS fuer alle!

5. ByteKnight $5, Go ahead!

6. Radfoo $6, Toast.

7. AnythingAmiga $20, This is the way to get things done!

8. Mahen $10, Let's cooperate.

9. Snowfox $20.

10. Forza Reggina $30, Amiga Rules!!

11. Lemmink $24, Thank you.

12. Urhs $20, -it's all about hope.

13 SWAUG.org.uk (South Wales Amiga User Group) $5.

14. individual Computers ( www.ami.ga ) - $$ 300, so the world may know! Amiga Top Zilla!

15. Rasmus $10, Amiga Si Teh Rulex0rz

16. Ben Hodgetts $22.

17. Ronald $10.

18. AIO- www.aioworld.com Enjoy my $1.

19. John H. Rice $50.

20. Neo $100, Amiga is the One.

21.Paul Gallant $15.

22. ACGGBG; Amiga Computer Group Gothenburg, $500. Amiga Top Zilla!

23. Josh Yates-Walker $101.

24. Amiga-One (libero) Slogan: Amiga Rules!! Again........a dream for life.....

25. MuadDib $22, Mozilla to the Amiga is as a literjon of water to a Fremen.

26. Chris Seward $5, I help you, you help me, please!, see www.sendmeapound.com.

27. Richard Spagnola $10.

28. Thiago Cavalcanti $1.

29. Sven Harvey - I hope the $25 helps, and I hope that AmiZilla will work great on AmigaOS 4.0!

30. Daniel Hutchinson $5.

31. Kal-L $10, Hey, good programmers, show us your skins.

33. Paul Townsend www.amigaoneproductions.co.uk $10.

34. Arturo Orozco $10.

35. Michael Andreasen $5.

36. Rune Erlend Jensen $25.

38. Diane Greathouse $25.

39. Paul Mellor $10.

40. Onno Scheffers $50 "We already have the coolest mascot! :o)".

41. Taco Hamers $4.

42. John Hogan $2.

43. Scottward $10 Good Luck, I cannot wait to see it....

44. Scott Konowal $25.

45. Cory Doctorow $5.

46.RedCloud $5.

47. Dave Lynch .50.

48. Florian Sauer $10.

49. Aki Salakka $10.

50. Thomas Holaday $5

51. Jason Scott $20 "www.bbsdocumentary.com".

52. Aaron Rowe $1.95.

53. David Russell $5.

54. Thomas Breeden $15.

55. Kenneth Kirchner $126.


56. Esa Petteri Pyyny $15.

57. Spiro Harvey $15.

58. Sidney Shuptrine $5.

59. Wendy Niewiarowski $7.

60. Tony Aksnes $77..

61. Ryu $1.95, Fighting the good fight.

62. Robert Kuehn $5.

63. Howard Hendrickson $20.

64. Michael Smith $10.

65. Ola Soder $5.

66. Tapio Koivuniemi $5.

67. Hans Wolff $21.21.

68. Brett Simcock $10.

69. JeMi Web Design $5.

70. Former Netscape Executive (wants to remain anonymous for now) $4205.61.

71. Mostafa Gulam $10.

72. James Russell $30.

73. Jeff Whitehouse $10.

74. John E Kirby $5.

75. Paul Muther $25.

76. Gary Witscher $5.

77. Curtis Yallop $20, What a great cause to donate to!

78. Lyren Brown $1.

79. Bovine Ignition Systems $10.

80. Christian Maria Galasso $40.

81. Darren Glenn $12.45

82. Randell Jesup $40

83. Dennis Smith $25

84. Bjorn Dahlman $1.93.

85. Gil Knutson $20.

86. Tommi Toivanen $10.

87. Per Boberg $20.

88. Aaron Wald $6.42.

89. Mark Siedle$5.92.

90. Frederic Khannouf $1.95.

91. Jonas Carlsson $2.00.

92. MR D W Pitcher $7.92.

93. Daniel Anderson $5.96.

94. David Chriscole $1.95

95. Kees Marijnsen $20

96. Thomas Franziskowski AmiZilla Shop

97. Racer X, $20 "Amizilla - so the world may know."

98. Michael Spartana, $8.

99. Markus Nygaard, $20 .

100. Robert Dickinson, $100.

101. Andreas Eriksson, $10.

102. Raimond Schmeisser, $13.

103. Urban Ahlin, $5.

104. Oliver Hodgson, $10.

105. Gianfranco Gignina, $5.

106. Paul Heams, $20.

107. Matthieu Corgie, $5.

108. Peter Halin, $5.

109. Darren O'Leary, $2.

110. Mark Bond, $30.

111. John Ryan, $5.

112. RELEC Software & Hardware Amiga, $50.

113. William Toner II, $20.

114. Benjamin Gerth, $1.80.

115. Matthias Muench, $5.

116. Karl Becker, $50.



117. Andreas Just, $5.

118. Justin Hemmings, $10.

119. Ralf Gruner, $20.

120. Magnus Jonsson, $15.

121. Michael Sutton, $10.

122. Frank Dille, $40.

123. Gareth Knipe, $5.

124. Robin Hueskes, $11.11.

125. Cristoforo Chrappan Soldavini , $10.

126. Kristian Eklund, $2.

127. Scott Woodall, $50.

128. Arnaud Danassie, $17.89.

129. Chevalier Pierre, $15.

130. Paul Fackrell, $30.

131. Andreas Eriksson, $10.

132. Troels Ersking, $40.

133. Ikir, $6.

134. Sebastien Gigot, $14.

135. David Morris, $29.

136. George Stewart, $10.27.

137. Bilgeri Serge, $14.

138. Ji Yong Dijkhuis, $50.

139. AmiTech Dayton User Group, $50.

140. Lionel Muller, $9.

141. Matthew Forman, $14.

142. Gerd Kautzmann, $19.

143. Patrick Pittman, $24.

144. Amazon Honor system donation, $50.

145. Markku Heikkinen, $24.

146. William Borsari (tekmage), $225.

147. Matthijs Jansen, $2.

148. Paul Laycock, $50

149. Ron Denney, $14

150. Erik Amundsen, $24.

151. David Morris, $100.

152. Joe Torre, $14.

153. Nico, $15.

154. Emmanuel Latour, $50.

155. Ad earnings $43.75.

156. Pertti Ryynanen, $24.

157. Kulwant Bhogal, $6.

158. Henrik Jensen, $24.

159. Enrico Zinne, $6.

160. Philippe Bourdin, $15.

161. Drathro, $30.

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Hi

for us the best solution is:
transfer the donation to Timberwolf to help that Firefox bounty succeed

thank you for your help
XRAY
RELEC

My opinion about this is that logically an first chief of Netscape isn't the man that will give an upper "high fly" to the Amiga.In fact probably thinking more on his own prides than a chance to the AMIGA.Yes AMIGA to go again?! He don't have this priority this man.The Brotherhood of people who uses and likes Amigas could be the key to reopen the gates (not Billy,not you...ha ha)

He is probably thinking more in his prestige and commitment wish its house that it says no to continue with such a project in order to keep his things to a higher level.

Thanks anyway for taking its time in taking the AmiZilla like a project to believe in better things to come near!!

Bounties? It could be done in time le t's wait to the Timberwolf work of Hyperion bros.

That 's really a very good thing!

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@DiscreteFX,

finally the dream of 'one browser for all Amigas' ended, it was a good decision to give me the possibility of getting the money back I donated.

When I did my donation, I had my doubts if the port will ever take place, but I thought to myself, 'when everyone refuses to pay, nothing will ever happen'

When I get back the money I will reinvest it into an AROS bounty, when something Amigaish may remain, it must be open source.

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AmigaONE. Haha. Just because you can put label on it does not make it Amiga.

I borrowed this comments from here (#27 & #28):
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=38873&forum=2&start=20&order=0

>My opinion about this is that logically an first chief of Netscape
>isn't the man that will give an upper "high fly" to the Amiga


What is an Amiga ?

Answers
1: An outdated abandoned computer hardware
2: A brand name owned by a company known for scamming people.

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AmigaONE. Haha. Just because you can put label on it does not make it Amiga.

I borrowed this comments from here (#27 & #28):
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=38873&forum=2&start=20&order=0

@bitman:

Quote:

Am I the only one that finds it "strange" that the booty ends, now that there is a real chance of getting FireFox on Amiga?

Certainly not. I also have my doubts. Seems more like some people got a little nervous now that a Firefox release is near. Even if it's only for OS4 now, it's likely that there soon would've been a version for other platforms and then this bounty would've been fulfilled and DiscreetFX would've been required to pay almost $12,000 dollars to some happy programmers... so from their point of view, it was high time to cancel this thing to make sure that they don't lose any money (remember that DiscreetFX also had a virtual $2,000 in that pot).

From my point of view, the bottom line is this: The AmiZilla bounty was only upheld as long as no Firefox was in sight. Now that we're close to a release it had to be cancelled because some clever porters could claim the money. Heck, even the Friedens could've changed their mind and take that AmiZilla bounty by releasing the sources! Who knows? So to make sure that no money has to be paid, the bounty was cancelled now.

This doesn't surprise me at all by the way. I always had a hard time to believe in this mysterious anonymous rich person story. Deus ex machinae or what? As long as he doesn't reveal his identity, I'm not believing this story at all. Sorry. No names, no credibility. Who knows if there ever really was a $5,000 donation? Could've been a fake after all. This former Netscape exec story really smells like one big hoax. The fact that it is cancelled now shortly before a release greatly contributes to the theory that there never was a former Netscape exec who donated $5,000. But that's just my 2 cents...

Last edited by qwertz on 20-Nov-2009 at 12:01 PM.