| From: | Luca Diana |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 18:56:22 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiwest news / new SDK |
From: "Aaron Ruscetta" <aaron@pd.org>
> > A version of the SDK for Windows will be made available next month.
>
> I find this a most untimely and disturbing announcement. As any
> student of this industry's monopolist physics can demonstrate, it
> won't take long for the windows vacuum to suck away all the light
> that's been shared with Amiga so far. Any concession to the monopoly
> corruptions at this stage of Amiga development seems hugely premature
> and remains, despite all fronts and assurances, a drain on resources
> and a serious contradiction to the alternative community commitments
> that Amiga Inc. has so successfully stated, solicited and exploited to
> date.
I really don't understand your considerations, Aaron. There is no concession
being given to Windows, this is a concession given to people who want to
develop on the SDK but don't like Linux (and I believe they are more). On
top of that you need at least two versions running on two different OS's to
prove that your code is portable without modifications (and this is exactly
what Bill did at Amiwest running a demo on the Win version of the SDK and
then copying the files to a floppy and running them on Linux). All this
debate about the necessity or not of having a Windows version because of
makiong "concessions" to Microsoft is futile. I mean, leave programming to
programmers and marketing to marketers...
I think the BoXeR is already a great example of marketing left in the hands
of a programmer/HW developer.
Luca
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