Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Sep 2002 20:26 UTC, submitted by Gareth
AROS, the AmigaOS clone which is being developed by Amiga enthousiasts, and who many regard it as the real future of the AmigaOS, now includes a simple WorkBench clone. Screenshots are available.
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The single most outstanding feature of AROS is the fact it's under a license (APL - which is a modification of the Mazolla license) that technically greatly reduces what I call IP Bitch Slapping incentive. In practicality, it eliminates such incentive.
This is a major and important difference and everyone who has commented so far is very well aware of this difference.
The effect this difference has on people and the way they think and view AROS shows up very clearly.
It seems that the "official" AmigaOS and approved products tend to require a great deal of hype and promises made and often broken..... to get any attention.
AROS, on the other hand, is downplayed. Effort seems to be applied to make it out to be less than it is.
Proprietary Amiga products = hype and false promises.
Open Source AROS = because you can see where it is and keep up with the provable fact of development, it is downplayed.
Interesting how the ones hyping Amiga are the same ones downplaying AROS.
Does this mean that Proprietary hype, IP Bitch Slapping and unfilled promises is what people really want?
Alt of good Amiga supporting companies went out of business due to all the IP bitch slapping that has gone on over the years regarding Amiga IP.
Personally I've had far more of that crap than I ever wanted, and I'm sure there are plenty more who feel the same way. As such I suspect that the people of these past Amiga supporting companies may very well someday return to the original Amiga values of openness, once AROS becomes more complete and widely used.
I think there are those who are afraid of AROS, considering the growth Linux is enjoying and the fact that many people don't need as complicated a system as Linux presents. As such, AROS will indeed be found useful and wanted by many who have never owned an Amiga, but are tired of Windows abuses and are not interested in linux complexity.
People who are batteling the speed war are foolish. For the systems we have today as many times faster than yesterdays systems and it's only going to get faster.
I'd rather use a slower open system than be IP bitch slapped with what may be faster but far more constrained systems, in regards to my freedoms, creativity and innovation.
A matter of what can be summed up in reading the Declaration of Independance.
When was the last time you read the D.of I.?