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Amiga Sells AmigaOS
rocketjam writes "Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc., a corporation which 'develops and distributes enabling technology.' The deal included 'all of Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent versions.' A spokesman said the sale would have no adverse affect on the release of a consumer version of AmigaOS 4.0 later this year. Amiga said it made the move in order to focus on the growing mobile market. The long saga of AmigaOS 4.0 continues."
Reader Da writes "there're always other options should the Amiga curse continue. Also mentioned on OSNews."
The latest in a long history of failures, the Linux operating system has flushed half of a US$820 million project out of the crapper hole on the side of the space shuttle. It seems that somebody came up with the bright idea of running the Mars rover on an Apple Macintosh "Supercomputer" controlled by Linux.
Oh, I suppose that that extra license fee for an actual quality operating system would have broken that $410M dollar budget. There's no way they could have afforded an embedded operating system that isn't cheap communist software. They could have gone with QNX RTOS, VxWorks or any number of other quality and time-tested real-time operating systems for the Mars rover, from a reputable company. But NOOOOO, they went with bullshit free-as-in-fix-everything-yourself Linux. Some long-haired balding fat Linux zealot, sucking up oodles of tax money with his blob-like presence in the NASA "engineering corps", with a certain penchant for cheap software, came up with the brilliant idea of running embedded Linux on an Apple Macintosh of all things. Of all the idiotic things that have happened under the current administration, this by far makes me most ashamed.
"Who" is never right. Always use "whom". Same goes for words like "he" vs "him" except when it's the first word in a sentence.
Even though everyone slags off Amiga, someone always buys it when it goes up for sale.
Yeah. We've got a girl like that in my neighborhood too.
KFG
Because The Constitution doesnt apply to Terrorists. You supports Terrorists. I hate Terrorists. That is why I am voting for Bush IN November!
Dont let those liberals scare you into voting for one of them. Under Democratic rule america had the worst ecomomy/taxation this nation has ever seen. I doubt John Kerry has ever even prayed to the L-rd. We all know that G-d would vote for Bush!
Liberals will make 9-11 happen all over again!
Bush 04!
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We Americans should be proud of ourselves!
Vile religious crazies that have killed our women and children are being held at Guantanamo Bay. They are allowed to retain their arms and legs, which have merely been restrained. Their wire cages have a concrete floor and allow for fresh air. These cages also allow access to diet supplementation through fresh meat. A diet of biologically activated water and historic food helps the detainees maintain their weight.
Best of all however is the use of specially trained female educators to brush aside medieval religious misunderstandings about human sexuality. Detainees who have in their culture been deprived of the view of a female touching her body now have access to this. One of the detainees even explained that an American girl had annointed him with her menstrual blood.
How dare you piece of shit defend a bunch of dumbass medieval cow and donkey fucking towelheads WHO WANT TO KILL US JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE IN YOUR MOON-DOG, nor suck your scumbag Ayatollahs dicks!!! You stupid cunt, you're still living in the dark ages!!
Get a life
Could someone just put a bullet in this intellectual property? There are no new commercial applications being written for this platform. Anything of significant merit is being done elsewhere. Development tools on other platforms have moved on, while this has stagnated. There's no turning back the clock.
GET OUT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN...