Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla

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Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday December 20, 2003 @04:43AM from the 'tis-the-season dept.

POds writes "Recently a Former Netscape Executive made a 2000 dollar donation to the Amizilla project, but for one reason or another, decided 2000 wasn't good enough and donated, yet another 2000 dollars. His only request is that he wants to see the amount get over $10,000 so is requesting others donate what they can. The Booty is now over $8400 and goes to the first developer(s) to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform."

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Coderbase: Convinced by anaphora · 2003-12-20 04:44 · Score: 5, Funny

8. Linux Coders we want you. Linux programmers are also welcome to try their hand @ porting Mozilla to Amiga. They are a talented group of coders and have given Microsoft a lot of grief. Nice Show!

Well, you just found your coderbase, AmiZilla. Anytime you offer money, bring up microsoft negatively, feed L-Users' egos, and reward them for doing what they're good at, you've got 80% of the L-Zealots behind you.
1. Re:Coderbase: Convinced by StarWreck · 2003-12-20 17:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  There's a lot of history of sticking it Microsoft when you refer to Amiga. A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away... There was COMMODORE!
  
  To keep from starving to death, Bill Gates sold an unlimited liscense for BASIC to Commodore for a ham sandwich and a bag of doritos. Commodore then proceeded to put BASIC on 30 million computers, without having to pay Bill Gates a single dime.
  
  It was a better time back then.
  
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I guess it's better than being unemployed by ObviousGuy · 2003-12-20 04:45 · Score: 1, Funny

$8,400 can buy a lot of beer.

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$4000! by neonstz · 2003-12-20 04:48 · Score: 5, Funny

That's $400 per potentional user!
Different Idea by Matt2000 · 2003-12-20 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny

I'll give $10,000 to all those who refuse to port anything to the Amiga, just to let those poor souls who still care move on with their lives.

Please guys, this holiday season take some time out of your schedule and knock an Amiga user unconscious, then nurse them back to health. That won't accomplish much in the long term, I agree, but it will shut them up for a couple days.
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1. Re:Different Idea by anaphora · 2003-12-20 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I refuse. Where's my money?
In other news... by JamesP · 2003-12-20 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Porting of MySQL to C64 begins, and an undisclosed donor has donated $5000 to the fist person to run Apache from a Tamagotchi

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Re:*sigh* by Bloody+Twit · 2003-12-20 05:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Now that I found some documentation for GEOS I'll get right on it. Might have to dust-off the ol' 512K RAM expansion cart, though...

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What actually happened by LokiSteve · 2003-12-20 06:42 · Score: 2, Funny

He actually just hit refresh and ended up double posting.

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Re:*sigh* by JohnnyBigodes · 2003-12-20 06:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Bah! Amiga is as dead as the Netscape browser!... errr.. oh wait...
Cocaine, Move Over by occamboy · 2003-12-20 08:33 · Score: 2, Funny

I believe that Robin Williams said that "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you have too much money."

Move over cocaine: you've been eclipsed!
$1 Million dollars! by alecf · 2003-12-20 08:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Rumor has it a certain Mr. Flinstone will pay $1 million dollars to the first person to port mozilla to "that wooden calculator with the bird inside."