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Poster | Thread | cgutjahr
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Re: Cloanto acquire Amiga Inc Trademark Posted on 2-Jun-2021 13:02:00
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At least in linux there's an official team who controls the kernel. How did you envision this for an open source amiga world?
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How did we get from "Leaman is trying to make his own AmigaOS" to "open source is bad, people could fork!" in just one or two postings?
The party that controls the trademark would be the one that gets all the attention. In a perfect world, they would also act less stupid than their predecessors: Communicate your goals clearly, attract a few key developers - any forks somebody might create will not matter much.
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There are a lot of people who think that things should have been implemented differenty. When they get access to the source, this will actually happen too.
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First of all: so what? It already happens - just ask Mr. Amigakit.
Also, the number of qualified developers is quite small. A few bedroom hackers might be tempted to "optimize" stuff, but preparing an entire release requires a lot work. And you can't call it "Amiga" or "Workbench", so nobody will care anyway.
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That an open source amigaos could suddenly attract large numbers of professional coders is nothing more than a fairy tale
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Which is why nobody ever claimed it would do that.
Open sourcing AmigaOS would be about stopping shady entities from keeping it hostage, about ending the stupid games with copyright assignments or 'NDA's, about making sure a developers knows that whatever happens to the publisher his work will not end up locked in a safe somewhere.
And it would force whoever is in charge to actually act sensible - instead of just relying on legal threats to people, or the fact that he once had a beer with the guy who registered amiga.org in 1994,.
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So no. An open source amigaos sounds like a horror scenario to me. But it would be nice that the closed source would be in the hands of a company that is actualy willing and able to move the platform forwards.
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Literally anything would be better than the status quo. Not sure which events from the last three decades make you think a company "willing and able to move the platform forward" is going to show up. |
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