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Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla
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."
What $10,000 could have done to advance some more meaningful Open Source project. What's next-- OpenOffice for C64?
Mozilla team has nothing to do with this, it's a contest of porting Mozilla to Amiga, the developer who does it wins the money, check out this.
But I think I somehow agree with you, how cares really about porting Mozilla to Amiga while there are lots of useful Open Source projects that require more support?
The IT section color scheme sucks.
If someone wants to port to Amiga, then let them. For all anyone knows they might find some bugs in the layout engine, or widgets or add something useful to the configuration script etc. . It's even possible that while porting to what might politely be called a throwback platform they introduce benefits that other low performance platforms such as handhelds can use.
In other words, the more platforms the merrier.
3. The AmiZilla Project must fully compile with running binaries on each of the following Amiga-like OS's: OS3.1, OS3.5+, MorphOS, UAE, Amithlon, DraCo. (Hint: don't hit the hardware, and stick to OS3.1: MUI, ClassAct 2, some internal gadget system, and bgui are acceptable).
I was the proud owner of a 500, 2000, and 4000(which I sold at a profit many years back). The Amiga was the hardware. It had a great API but the hardware(angus, denise, etc.) was what it was all about. If you aren't hitting the hardware, it's Amiga in name only.
The Booty is now over $8400 and goes to the first developer(s) to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform.
I'm a BSD and Macintosh fan. And even I think the Amiga is dead.
It's not beleaguered. It's not "dying". It's dead. It's been ten years. For crissake, give up already. They were great back in the day, but so was Lionel Ritchie and skinny ties.
--saint
Is it just me or is $4000 not very much money
its so nice to piss down on somone else and forget where your OS of choice were just few years back!
I got started on Commodore gear -- my parents bought a C64 when I was really young, and that what I cut my programmng teeth on.
I read Commodore Magazine for years, typing in the programs in the back and trying to figure out what they do.
I called my first BBSes at 1200 baud on that C64. And I was really jealous of everyone who had an Amiga or an Atari ST.
Hell, I was even excited when Gateway bought up all the rights to the Amiga name. This was, of course, back when a Gateway was still a premium machine. "At last! The Amiga is coming back! I can finally get one!"
But it's over. The Amiga has been gone for so long that there's nothing but a string of hucksters trying to trade on the name. The platform is dead. It's a shame -- I always wanted one -- but it's over.
The diversity in computing is gone. I work for a college, and there are kids in the CS department who don't believe me when I say that there used to be so many different platforms. It's sad, but it's true, and noble efforts like this AmiZilla bribery don't change it.
--saint
Am I getting through? Probably not, but maybe I vaguely amused someone else.
If the donator want's to sponsor porting mozilla over to the original NES, then, that's his right. If someone wants to code it, then that is their right as well.
No one's stoping you from sponsoring the main firebird's development.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
The diversity in computing is gone
I know how you feel - but the fun in computing is coming BACK!!!!!
Five years ago, you had a choice: Windows98, WindowsNT or some wacky hard-to find os called Linux that you probably diden't know existed. Oh, and Mac's were ok if you were one of those "Artisits"
Now you can by $1000 Sun/Solaris Boxes
Macs are kick ass computers.
There Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD - the're all cool.
Hell, even XP isen't soooo bad for light use.
Thinkgs are gitting fun again!!
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
They were on about porting Mozilla to the Amiga back when Mozilla was created. The problem at the time was the Amiga APIs and GUI systems were all C based. C++ wasn't really in widespread use.
I don't know what the current situation is, but I feel the replacement for the Amiga is Linux.
If this system of bounty-posting works, I'd like to invest in getting a recent version of Mozilla ported to Mac-OS. The final build we got for Mac-OS doesn't have spam-filtering, fails to render slashdot some of the time, and has a debilitating bug where the focus is lost if you change to another app with mozilla mimimised, stopping you using the keyboard.
Mac-OS has a massive userbase of low coputer-literacy 'creative' people who bought a mac for usability and are highly resistant to retraining to OSX, but since OSX is a much nicer development environment, all the programmers were very quick to jump ship. It would certainly make my life easier if I could migrate all the designers I look after to Mozilla.
So, is there a bounty for a Mac-OS port out there, or how do I start one and get it noticed by potention developers/contributors?
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I really get sick of all these people saying "The Amiga is Dead" simply because there's no marketing machine or company behind the name. (Even if there is, and they are a poor company).
Since when did a marketing machine and financial support determine an OS's (or platform's) viability? Is Windows 98 dead now that Microsoft no longer supports or markets it? I don't think so, since so many programs you buy still work on it and countless computers still run it.
I think it's a bit silly for people hanging out in an open-source, FREE SOFTWARE themed forum, to say that a platform is dead because it's not CORPORATE.
Nevermind that there are still tens of thousands of dedicated users who operate Amigas side-by-side with other more advanced computers; who use the Amiga for what it can do because they like the way it does those things, but use the more advanced hardware for what the Amiga lacks. That independent software developers have been inventing their own solutions to internet connectivity and audio playback/editing and UNIX cross-platform compatibility for YEARS now, ABSOLUTELY FREE, and oftentimes WITHOUT the help from all the befuddling Linux/sf.net open source existing code. These people are doing it from scratch using the AmigaOS's API because it's GOOD, and EFFICIENT, and actually rather fun to program.
Isn't that incredibly respectable in the mindset of this forum? No?
So I guess I should stop now. I could go on forever. I find it incredibly painful that otherwise open-minded, inspired folks find it perfectly fine to diss a platform and make value judgments about it when THEY'VE NEVER EVEN USED IT.
Alternatively, bring up L-users negatively, re-assure insecure M$ programmers with words like zealot and amateur and you'll have 80% of the M$ zealots behind you. Not sure about the quality of the code though. :)
And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that porting Mozilla is a rather complex task, especially for a single person.
a platform made in the last 10 years.
Platforms made in the last 10 years include the Amiga, and various Amiga-clones. Now consider the amount of Amiga software released in the last 10 years, and the software on other platforms that was either ported from the Amiga, or written by ex-Amiga developers..
Look, I hate flamewars as much as the next guy, but come ON! This is the amiga for cripes sake.
I'm sure everyone says that. "I hate flamewars, but this is something I hate, so I'm going to flame anyway".