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The modern Amiga community is weird. I get the nostalgia kick it brings, but there's too many differently vectored "purity" movements all concerned with carving
by bane 11y ago
The modern Amiga community is weird. I get the nostalgia kick it brings, but there's too many differently vectored "purity" movements all concerned with carving out their own slightly different piece of a rapidly shrinking pie. There's what, 4-5 different OS projects?
Even stranger are the commercial software projects -- for which there are dozens. The creators will never come close to even making their time back with sales of very complex apps, so why not just release everything as Open Source or Freeware? There's no business model in the world where it makes sense to sell Amiga software anymore, and with the massive OS fragmentation any given port must sell in the low dozens even for very popular titles.
It absolutely doesn't make sense and seems very self defeating for what could be a more vibrant hobbyist platform.