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Announcement   Announcement : Poseidon USB for AROS
   posted by DaveC on 22-Sep-2008 19:32:49 (4839 reads)
San Antonio, September 22, 2008 - power2PEOPLE is pleased to announce its latest bounty initiative. Chris Hodges, the original author of the Poseidon USB system, has proposed to undertake the task of porting Poseidon USB to AROS and release his work under the APL (AROS Public License) transforming Poseidon USB into an open source project.

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For this to become a reality, it will require a total amount of donations of at least $4000. For a complete list of objectives, included files, and exclusions please visit the power2PEOPLE website. .

    

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Re: Poseidon USB for AROS
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Ack! I made a mistake in posting. Could someone point me to the news-mod?

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This is great news for AROS!


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Re: Poseidon USB for AROS
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Really great news for AROS. Let it rise :D

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Re: Poseidon USB for AROS
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@ DaveC

Quote:

Ack! I made a mistake in posting. Could someone point me to the news-mod?


You can PM any mod you find online. You can also click on the About Us link in the left hand column to find who is a mod if you do not know.

So what mistake do you want corrected?

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Re: Poseidon USB for AROS
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Thanks! I sent you a PM Moxee with the corrected text. I'm really sorry about posting the wrong text.

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No problem. I changed the text to read as you sent. It should be OK now.


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Thanks again. I'm sure that both the community and Chris will make this happen.

I'm hopeful that this, when and if it's done, will have a trickle down affect for everybody that uses Poseidon too. More varied drivers and the like.

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This also means good news for OS4: at last we'll be able to have USB2 transfer speeds.


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Holy crap ! Friggin fantastic great news!
So what did they bribe you with Chris? :D


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Bummer that no one has donated yet.


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This is fantastic news... for elbox


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Quote:

This is fantastic news... for elbox


Indeed... they can leech Amiga users even more.


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Re: Poseidon USB for AROS
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So does

"Goal: 4000$"

mean that it will only happen it that goal is reached?

Edit:
Sorry didn't read the full news item

Last edited by Bit7 on 23-Sep-2008 at 09:52 AM.

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...transforming Poseidon USB into an open source project.

For this to become a reality, it will require a total amount of donations of at least $4000.


LOL! So they want $4,000 to make some software open source? I thought the point of open source is that it is free?

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This also means good news for OS4: at last we'll be able to have USB2 transfer speeds.


How is that good news for OS4? It relates the the AROS public license. What says the code can be used elsewhere? In any case the bounty is many times the cost of OS4.1. It will be ages before the bounty is reached. And will any code be written before it is reached?

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How is that good news for OS4? It relates the the AROS public license.


It could be recompiled and included in OS4 if desired.

Quote:
What says the code can be used elsewhere?


Read the APL license.

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In any case the bounty is many times the cost of OS4.1.


So you could buy OS4 sources for many times less than $4000? yeah sure

Quote:
It will be ages before the bounty is reached.


Efika AROS bounty is over $3000. It also has taken ages until OS4 was released and ATM OS4 has no USB2 driver (in contrast AmigaOS3 and MorphOS have thanks to Poseidon). It will take ages until OS4 has USB2.

Quote:
And will any code be written before it is reached?


AFAIK Chris plans to release small bugfixes but not to implement a lot of new features. The 68k code already works on AmigaOS3/AmigaOS4, adapting the PCI driver shouldn't take a lot of work.

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@ Hypex :
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What says the code can be used elsewhere?

Quote:
the AROS public license

There you have it, you have a code inside your own post and it answers yourself...


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IIRC both MorphOS and AmigaOS4 already use code from the AROS project.

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Hmm.. what AROS code is in OS4, then?!


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Colorwheel gadget perhaps


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