Re: Possibility of open-sourcing GS/OS

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

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>I was wondering if people think that we could convince Apple to open
> the source code to GS/OS. If they were to do that, it would mean that
> we could more easily enhance it to take advantage of new developments
> in hardware and possibly even produce ports to other 65816 systems (the
> SuperCPU accelerator available for the Commodore 64 and 128, for
> example)
>
> Do people think that it would even be worth starting a petion about
> this? I for one think it might be, as Apple no longer supports the
> software AND already distributes it as Freeware.
>

Never gonna happen. Has Apple ever made ANYTHING open-source? Sure, It'd be 
really, really cool but I think it's just a pipe dream. Frankly, I'm 
thrilled that they have some of their old OS's for download. Asking for code 
is pushing it.

-Greg