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How does spreading leaked sources even help us in the end?
We can't legally use code that's even based on it. Good luck finding hosts for it, much less being able to use it in the open. It would have to be handled like illegal ROMs now and that gains us nothing, just a bunch of sites getting DMCA notices and maybe fines or lawsuits. You're going to have an even worse time finding coders who will work under those circumstances. So out of the available options, what's left? Should we ask about open sourcing it? Absolutely, but don't expect an answer. |
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I'm just not convinced that any remotely reasonable amount of money would do the trick or that they have the rights to open source it. |
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That is what we must do, frank_b. But first we have to find out who the present owners are, in total. Can we do some detective work in here? I suppose there are at least a few members of this forum who actually know, can you guys speak up to give us the initial leads?
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There absolutely is a price, and we must find it. But first we must find out who, completely, owns the rights. We don't need the brand, we don't need the trademark. We just need all components of the OS. |
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If they say one BILLION dollars, hahahaha. Then that's effectively a no. I'd love to see it go something like Poseidon did for AROS, but that requires them to be reasonable and have the rights to do it. Last edited by Heiroglyph; 14 October 2016 at 17:50. |
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@Akira, I'm with you 100% on the "criminality" of hunting enthusiasts down. It's absolutely disgusting. But whether or not you agree with me about the value of open source for development, I hope you will agree with me that at least destroying the so-called intellectual property rights via that process, would be a good thing.
And yes, for fuck's sake, let's put rub pennies together and employ these developers. Again, see Patreon... But first things first, we need to liberate the OS so they have a legally comfortable base to work from. Now, do I need to hire an attorney and start from scratch, or will you guys who know about the legal situation speak up? |
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Considering the asset's incredible depreciation over the last 15 years, I feel reasonably confident that the complete rights to AmigaOS can be had for less than $1M, minus names, trademarks, and Hyperion's OS4. Even five times that is an amount of money we can raise with the right campaign. |
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Just about every RTG solution (Domino, Picasso II, EGS, Retina, CyberGraphX and Picasso96 -- I think that's the whole list) plastered intuition.library with patches which would depend upon certain register configurations and internal data structures to be just so that screens and windows would come out on a graphics card rather than use the built-in Amiga custom chip set. Modifying intuition.library (and graphics.library, for that matter) and remaining compatible with those RTG solutions will be a tall order. Not necessarily impossible, but quite hard. You know you're in trouble when the changes to be made have to be side-effect and bug-compatible :-/ |
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As I see it, amiga fanboys in the last decades who wanted the "second coming", kept on feeding those vultures, causing the situation we are in today. Unfortunately, those same fanboys are STILL feeding them; they still want the second coming, so they literally DROOL over the Vampire (umteenth attempt to speculate ). |
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@Heiroglyph, I am saying nothing more than if it is less than $1M -- which it absolutely should be -- it can be done. Don't worry, until the other players are at the table, we are not bargaining.
@Olaf, I know your pessimism is somehow well-intentioned, but I honestly don't believe that anyone in this community has ever summoned the present-day powers of social media to do a true crowd-funding campaign for such a noble project. Whatever association you might be making I can guess was based on bounties in an extraordinarily limited context. To my earlier point about documentaries and rich interviewees, there are plenty of people with great fondness for the Amiga, going far beyond what is considered "the community". |
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AROS on 68k is a dead end. As I've said multiple times, they screwed up on day one by jumping to a whole new platform and rewriting the entire ecosystem. Now they keep praying that magic will happen and it will be both binary compatible and not slow as molasses on real Amiga hardware.
AROS has been a two decade waste of time and resources. It will eventually work on multi-GHz Intel machines, but it's useless for our existing systems. The longer we rely on AROS to magically fix all their mismanagement, the fewer resources we have to write a proper replacement. |
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Not by myself but I'll certainly join anyone willing.
Hell, given 21+ years that the AROS team has taken, I probably could have. Just that 512k of ROM replacement would be a huge benefit. In 21 years you only need to produce about 66 compiled bytes per day |
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You know, there is a certain irony in the fact that the subject of our arguments, according to all existing stories and documentation, was literally designed and built under near-impossible, last-minute conditions... And yet there is so much pessimism here.
Yes, you put your faith in corporations and got let down. It's really a shocker, isn't it? Yet I don't see what that has to do with anything. Let's carry on, one foot in front of the other, and get this done. I'm in agreement with all of you that AROS is the way forward, but as discussed, for a plethora of reasons including benefits to AROS itself, we need to liberate AmigaOS. Again, who has a clear understanding of the intellectual property web of AmigaOS, please do speak up or even send me a private message with whatever details you know. I will compile this into a document that we can all look at and edit, and we will go forward from there. |
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