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Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Please give us Firebird first by cloudless.net · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would love to see the Mozilla team to work towards the 1.0 version of Firebird first. Please set the priority straight.

  2. I'm looking for the new amiga... by adept256 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    because every couple of years I read something like this:
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34922, 00.html
    the architecture of the original amiga was very innovative, more like a ps2 than a pc
    I still get a kick from looking at some raytraces I did back in the old amiga days

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  3. always leaving out Atari... by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why stop at just the Amiga? How about the Atari ST platform? After all, STick, Cab, and Mosaic all ran on it... and, the ST had support built in for ISDN way back in 1985 in the OS...

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    1. Re:always leaving out Atari... by vidarh · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Actually the Amiga had it's own keyboard CPU too. It was a 6502 compatible chip with on board PROM and RAM clocked at somewhere above 1MHz.

      I once had a really bastardized Amiga 2000, with a total of 6 general purpose CPU's in it (of which two were not in use): A 68000 on the motherboard, a 68020 acellerator card, a PC card with an 8086 (let you run DOS apps in a window on your Amiga desktop) upgraded with a 286 accelerator card, the 6502 compatible CPU on the keyboard and a Z80 controlled SCSI controller...

      Those were the days :-)

  4. I'll offer $5.00.. by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you port it to the Commodore 64.

    Seriously though, I love Amigas (had three of 'em up until a year ago) but the old machines are dying off partly because the batteries are cracking open and ruining the motherboards.

  5. Re:only 4k? by Little+Brother · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it isn't much money to you, would you PLEASE send me just HALF of it? Please? No? Why not?

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  6. Re:only 4k? by eln · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Depends on what you think your time is worth I guess. For most programmers, $4000 for something that would probably take a few months at least of full time programming is an insult. For college students who could take a year doing it in their spare time, $4000 buys a whole lot of beer.

    If anyone does this though, I suspect it'll be a hard-core Amiga zealot whose primary motivation is not the money.

  7. Re:Amiga zealots. by Seehund · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, the Amiga is dead and buried. The story is a bit misleading.

    "Port Mozilla to AmigaOS and similar/compatible OSes" would probably have been more accurate.

    AmigaOS might get a chance to live on in version 4, on off the shelf 3rd party hardware, if the company that whimsically calls itself "Amiga Inc." would only give it a chance instead of actively doing all they can to kill it in its cradle. Then there's things like the API compatible MorphOS and the open source AROS.

    And no, Lionel Ritchie and skinny ties have never been great.

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  8. Re:$4000! by 56ker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you've underestimated the amount of Amiga users. The main reason (I'm sure) Mozilla hasn't been ported yet is that the Amiga already has three browsers of its own - Voyager, IBrowser & AWeb.

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  9. Poor slashdot attitude by oobar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There seem to be a lot of responses along the lines of "(sigh) Why oh why are resources being wasted on this? Can't they work on the mainstream platform instead? Imagine what that money could do..." This completely misses the point. The donor behind this obviously sees some need or desire to see Moz on the Amiga, and is willing to put his money where his mouth is. If you don't agree, fine. If you want to see mainline Mozilla development continue, then donate to the Mozilla Foundation. Otherwise don't complain about a perceived injustice to something provided to you for free.

    It's like complaining about how muscular dystrophy is such a worthless cause and all those losers who donated to MD research could have made a bigger impact if they'd contributed to AIDS research instead.

  10. I said it in the past... by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...I'll say it again.

    I used to code quite a bit on the Amiga. I would love to get back into the show and donate my time and my help (if I could be any help at all) to a worthwhile opened source Amiga project.

    I'll get started the moment they ACTUALLY deliver that new and exciting entry into personal computers that they've been promising for years.

    Oh, and sneak peaks at "Maybe Almost Sort of Available Hardware that only runs Linux at the moment" doesn't count.

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