| From: | Daniel Robbins |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 23:37:27 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Sidegrade |
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:07:15PM +0100, Liam Welford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just been thinking about this sidegrade thing, I'm not an expert, I don't
> program (graphics artist) so I probably don't know what I am talking about,
> but I will try and get my feelings across anyhow :-)
>
> This new OE/OS or whatever you like to call it is designed to be platform
> independent, and for this reason I feel when you pay for the SDK you should
> be given the right to use it on whatever hosted enviroment you want, as and
> when the SDK is available for that OS.
>
> I think the Windows hosted SDK is a great move, however those people who
> have already payed for the Linux hosted SDK, and would have preferred a
> Windows version aren't all going to be willing to shell out money again.
>
> I can't pretend I know how much work this could involve because I don't, it
> just seems to me it would in the best interests of Amiga to enforce the
> platform independent nature of the code by allowing owners of the SDK,
> versions for whichever platforms they choose as and when the are supported,
> either by download or paying the costs to cover an updated cd (which need
> not be much).
>
> It just seems some what stupid to me, that developers are charged to run the
> SDK on newly supported hosted OS's with a system that promotes platform
> indepence, with the end goal of users not needing to pay for new software
> versions when they change hardware or the hosting OS.
I'd have to agree.