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What is it that makes these people hold on to the source code of AmigaOS? It's not lucrative: probably the costs of making these updates are much higher than an

What is it that makes these people hold on to the source code of AmigaOS? It's not lucrative: probably the costs of making these updates are much higher than any possible revenue? It must be economically practically impossible to hire engineers to do this sort of work. It sounds like some kind of hobby for some people.

mobiuscog 10y ago
Not everything is about money.
- Narishma 10y ago
  In this case it seems to be.
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago
  What do you suppose the rationale is here?
- kyberias 10y ago
  I didn't say it was about money. It most probably isn't "about money". I was asking what is the motivation since there are some obvious costs.
david-given 10y ago
It may just be too expensive to release. There may be all kinds of third-party licensed code in there, and someone will have to go through and audit everything to find out. If there is some, it'll have to be removed from any external release. ...and if you're releasing a VCS dump, then it's not good enough to just look at the current state of the files: any third-party code that ever got committed will still be there, and will need to be purged. This is going to be a lot of work, and it may simply be infeasible to do so.