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Topic-shifting and trolling is really annoying. It's a common problem by the same kind of people -- narcissists who have to make everything about them and what they want to talk about. Profit and open-source are perfectly fine points and do play into how I've structured the Buffee Project and a fair question to ask. Being "anti-open-source" is a completely fine position to take. Kipper's right, there are too many leeches out there ready to clone your product and make money on your back. These vermin clone without innovating and do it across enough platforms and products that they can do quite well for themselves. I want to do nothing that makes their lives easier. Open-source software sort-of makes sense, but it's dubious. It's not perfect and companies have had a difficult time growing the market because of it. For the hundreds-of-thousands of users, Linux only has a handful of active developers and for all the whining about making PJIT open source again I've still had ZERO input. Open-source hardware is nonsense. Sorry but it is. First, the number of people who can assemble a PCB is a really, really small percentage, even just within what's left of the Amiga community (and that's getting harder with the proliferation of BGA these days). Second, while people can copy software with or without it being open source, if they don't have hardware to run it on, it's a lot harder to clone things. And CM's aren't in the business of sharing design files, as much as people love to dump on China's lax IP standards. I have yet to hear any convincing argument in favour of open-source save one: it allows the project to continue on if the original creator dies. Though that doesn't really need open-source, it just needs a team of more than one person. Being open-source hasn't helped Niklas on his A314 project. It hasn't made ReAmiga's the new standard. It hasn't given everyone 14MHz CPUs and Kickstart Switchers. What it does give is designers an excuse for having to back their product and actually make anything. It's lazy. It's a cop out. The number of people who whine about open-source are a very few but vocal minority. It's about ideology to them and nothing more. They loathe the idea that they might not be privy to something and the idea of keeping it from them makes them hate it. So be it. I don't care about your frail ego. You can talk about good-intentions and post-scarcity, but my bank doesn't accept mortgage payments of good-intentions. With rare exception we won't make gerbers public anymore. Unless it's an old version we've abandoned or know doesn't work or some dumb board like the byte-swapper or Denise-180. We will generally not even release schematics. Again with the above exceptions. Firmware will only be made available once we made a few and released them into the public. After all, unless we're encrypting them, anyone can copy this. Software is the one and only thing we'll keep open. But it's protected by the non-compete clause and we will ruthlessly go after anyone who tries to clone us or violate the terms and conditions of the license. |
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26 September 2022, 21:22 | #144 |
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received Paula (Harmonie). Looks like Faith so i wont bother putting up pictures and layout may change anyway
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Is this available/will be available any time soon? I have an A500 with a dead Agnus, this would be perfect.
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26 September 2022, 22:40 | #149 | |
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Fun fact, back in the day, "AND" was called multiplication and "OR" was called addition. This is why you'd see old PAL equations like D = /A + /B * /C. I think this has led to a lot of the confusion. Last edited by nonarkitten; 26 September 2022 at 22:52. |
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Hi Akira, We want it to be available as soon as poss, I wish i could give a good estimate as i am also wanting it ASAP. It will need some stress testing to make sure no issues |
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Instead of trying to cut out cloners I suggest making it easier for them to provide support for the products they manufacture, by making your designs fully open source and sharing them without restrictions. Quote:
Over the years I have dabbled in small time manufacture of various electronic gadgets, but I can't be bothered anymore. Too much work, stress and risk, when I could spend less time and effort working at a real job for a lot more money. Electronics is purely a hobby for me now. If others want to make money out of my designs then more power to them! I recently shut down my website because it was a pain to maintain and costing more than I could possibly recover. Instead I will put my projects up on GitHub for everybody to enjoy (even cloners) and open threads on various forums to discuss them. I'm not saying you should do the same, but don't be a slave to your creations, and don't make them closed source out of spite for not getting your 'cut'. Which would you rather be - a money-grubbing capitalist, or a creative genius who enjoys giving to the community and appreciates its response? |
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I disagree, copyright the code, make them do the legwork!!
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not gonna respond, i would rather talk about the technical side
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My understanding is that nonarkitten design is fully digital where Paula is 4 independent DAC's. Apologies but i was referring only to TCD - perhaps i have less faith in people than he. Last edited by pandy71; 27 September 2022 at 00:39. |
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I don't know what you mean by this exactly. What I can say is that A314 was started by Eriond when he designed and built the A500 trapdoor version of A314 hardware. Since he chose to make his work open source I then joined him in developing firmware and software for it. Later the a314fs file system was ported to Mister/Minimig. A314 software is also running on PiStorm. So in my view A314 is a nice example of good things that can come out of Amiga open source projects.
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The PJIT is probably way over my head and I wouldn't even know where to start and I can imagine other being equally "intimidated"... Is there any testbed to run it without the actual hardware? Quote:
E.g. the author of my favorite file manager on Amiga SID2 has long passed away ... and while I somehow managed to hack it to work on larger screens and a few other things: source code would help tremendously. Or this thread, that popped up in the news section just yesterday: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=86633 Playsid.library (freeware) is abandoned since 1996 and someone even has the source, but dares not to publish it... So especially in our retro-community I think it is quite obvious. Sure it is the creators choice, but if one is doing a freeware program anyway, why not include the source? It has gotten much better over the years, but the Amiga community was somehow poised with secrecy and insider knowledge ... sometimes still present in the demo-scene. |
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