Hello Dave,

You have more than once claimed that the MorphOS Team has stolen AmigaOS source code. The latest incident happened on amigaworld.net: "We didn't steal a single line of code from AmigaOS… The MorphOS people did not not-do any of those things."

I'd like you to put up and present your evidence to the public. If this is not possible please send such evidence to my email address at sintonen@iki.fi for my review, and acknowledge sending it in public.

Alternatively you can of course retract your claims. An apology wouldn't hurt either.

Best Regards,
Harry Sintonen
Member of the MorphOS Team

And the reason you are posting this bait here and not posting at the forum the comment was made is?

...that Itix already did that.

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Hello Dave,

You have more than once claimed that the MorphOS Team has stolen AmigaOS source code. The latest incident happened on amigaworld.net: "We didn't steal a single line of code from AmigaOS… The MorphOS people did not not-do any of those things."

I'd like you to put up and present your evidence to the public. If this is not possible please send such evidence to my email address at sintonen@iki.fi for my review, and acknowledge sending it in public.

Alternatively you can of course retract your claims. An apology wouldn't hurt either.

Best Regards,
Harry Sintonen
Member of the MorphOS Team

Harry,

Much as I respect you and your work on MorphOS, this kind of thing is just a waste of time.   Let's not piss off one of the few Amiga legends who still bothers to maintain an interest in Amiga developments.

Let's just delete this thread shall we?

Harry,

Much as I respect you and your work on MorphOS, this kind of thing is just a waste of time.   Let's not piss off one of the few Amiga legends who still bothers to maintain an interest in Amiga developments.

Let's just delete this thread shall we?

Well if anyone is making claims about something, the person, company, or group accused should be able to see the evidence against them.  I am speaking generally here.

The phrase in English is "Put up or Shut Up".

Personally I would like to think that these kinds of "wars" are behind us and that we are free to go our own ways and choose our own operating systems without accusation, trolling, or flaming.   In this case it was Mr. Haynie bringing up these old accusations.  Why it matters anymore is beyond me.  History is History and none of us can change it.

PIru

I agree with you. If Dave is making comments like this he should apologize. I think he's just echoing what alot of the us old skool amiga guys said years ago..

Rumors abound in amiga land.
 
I agree that if your going to make serious accusations like that, you should present evidence.
 
I've heard this rumor myself many times, but then I've also heard that they used an awful lot of aros source code.
 
If they are using aros source code then closing their own source and charging for the resulting product, I find a bigger problem with that.
 
Of crouse, I don't have evidence of morphos taking either os3.x or aros source code to use in their os, this is just some of the things people have said over the years.
 
Steven

http://www.morphos-team.net/team.html

Morphos has openly used AROS code and as far as I know has always been in compliance with any relevant licenses and has contributed bug fixes back to AROS.

It's a laughable claim and it's wrong for people to keep making it, no matter who they are.  This claim was first made by Ben Hermans a decade ago.  If there were any evidence you can be sure it would have surfaced by now.  The fact that it hasn't speaks volumes.

I'm with Dave. It is not all too untrue claim. There is just not point in arguing it at this point.  Your Ego needs a tougher skin.