Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 26th Aug 2005 22:57 UTC, submitted by Matt Turner
After a great deal of interest from the community, we have decided to officially open the "SkyOS Code Ransom". In a nutshell, the SkyOS Code Ransom is a system to encourage developers to port various software packages to SkyOS, as well as a way to reward them for their efforts. Depending on how successful and how much interest there is in the "SkyOS Code Ransom", we may expand this feature of the website a great deal more in the future.
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None of these apps have we claimed to have written, nor have we attempted to "re-brand" them. We have no interest
Wow, way to do your p.r. work. I clearly stated some programs, not all. You keep trying to re-word my arguments instead of actually addressing my points.
Would you accept these same kinds of answers from Microsoft? What if Microsoft claimed that Vista was 100% original, but later you found that the file manager was actually an open source port renamed "VistaExplorer." Would you accept the explanation that that the program is not actually part of the operating system? What if they renamed 10-15 open source programs "Vista-whatever" and then provided a list of programs they didn't rename as a response?
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...it is quite telling that some programs have been renamed to give people the impression that they were developed by the SkyOS team.
You mean like:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Nvu
Bash
Quake I
Quake II
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Gaim
Gimp
FooBillard
LBreakOut 2
Blender
Abiword
Bochs
dotGNU
None of these apps have we claimed to have written, nor have we attempted to "re-brand" them. We have no interest in re-naming any of these applications; quite the opposite, most of these are well-known applications, and the fact that they are available for SkyOS is an advertisement for SkyOS, that many popular applications are available for the platform.