Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Card Cages and extra serial port support for A500 Message-ID: Date: 29 May 89 17:45:57 GMT References: <2433@van-bc.UUCP>, <664@madnix.UUCP> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 54 In-Reply-To: <664@madnix.UUCP> > Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 25-May-89 Re: Card Cages and extra > se.. Perry Kivolowitz@madnix. (1349) > On Christmas day I sat down to write our serial driver. On New Years > day I had a driver which would mostly run most terminal programs. Mostly. > Then the hard work started. Hundreds of special cases. Idiosyncracies. > After five months of intensive work, our driver was finished. > You want my software for free? Right. You're typical of what's wrong > with the Amiga market. This ain't no damn 64. Grow up. Well, not to belittle your software development efforts, but the program I am using to compose this message is free software, as well as the user interface toolkit it was built with, the window manager it runs under and a good portion of the software that was used to develop it. I think any one of these pieces of software is at least as difficult to write as your serial driver. The Unix workstation which is running this free software is a more mature and professional environment than a C-64. It is also more mature and professional than the Amiga. Some people want to share software solutions with other people because it is the hacker ethic, not because they used to own a C-64 with hundreds of disks worth of pirated software. While I do recognize your rights to keep proprietary a piece of software that you obviously spent a long time developing, I don't think you should belittle others for subscribing to the same ethic that has made the Amiga one of the nicest machines available for obtaining freely-distributable software, often with source code. > Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 25-May-89 Re: Card Cages and extra > se.. Perry Kivolowitz@madnix. (1349) > The person who said ``he with the best software will win'' is > right. We aim to win. Certainly good software will help you win, but just as important is a friendly attitude towards your potential customers. This is not the first piece of inflammatory mail that I have seen you post on the net. I don't particularly think it wears well on you or your company, especially given the fact that you are one of the leading developers of third-party hardware and software for the Amiga. --M -- Michael Portuesi * Carnegie Mellon University INTERNET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu * BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ MAIL: Carnegie Mellon University, P.O. Box 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213