Re: Possibility of open-sourcing GS/OS

[Ziggy <Ziggy@faked-address.com>]

madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

Dont hold your breath. Apple would get nothing out of doing that. They arent
into 'feeling good', unless there are $'s attached.

Besides, GS/OS was released back in the days when all their OS's were free. 

They assumed you had to have bought their hardware, and that was the
business they were in back then, selling computers.