On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:19, Felix Sheldon wrote: > There have always been plenty of alternatives to Windows, and there > still are, just not all OSS, so I think it's more important to have an > Open Source/Free software OS for whatever the cheap hardware of the day is. > > If there had been a huge free software movement based on software for > OS/2 or BeOS or AmigaOS (well, there was, kind of..), it would be > practically dead today, thanks to the companies that owned the > copyrights on the OS. Even if we could have read the source code for > these OSes, it would still be dead without the right to reuse it. (I > wonder if IBM ever thought about open-sourcing OS/2?)
Commodore published /very/ comprehensive internals for the Amiga. With the right to use (on the Amiga) Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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