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It's actually not a fantasy. AmigaOS 3.2 was released this year as a commercial product, and Apollo make enough money to employ Gunnar full time and some part t
by grahamlee 5y ago
It's actually not a fantasy. AmigaOS 3.2 was released this year as a commercial product, and Apollo make enough money to employ Gunnar full time and some part time folks too. Giving a niche community exactly the things they want will never be unicorn territory but it can produce liveable income.
There is also the open source stuff: for example Apollo have abandoned CoffinOS due to licensing issues and are now developing ApolloOS, which is a fork of AROS, which is an open source reimplementation of AmigaOS. Free Software ideas aren't as prevalent as I'd like in the Amiga community but they are there (plenty of GNU software was ported to Amiga via ixemul.library so they've always been there).
- rbanffy 5y agoWhile you can maintain one or two people out of this market, it won’t be much more than that. The Amiga community will be better off with fully open source community projects.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoI mean it's funny, I wasn't familiar with CoffinOS so I googled it, and most of the results I found were links to forum posts of people fighting & bickering about piracy, compensation, and unethical behaviour around compensation and IP. We're a smaller community, but I don't see this kind of fighting on Atari ST forums. And we have a good quality fully open sourced GPL reimplementation of the operating system, too, with a pretty awesome development team.