From: aros-announce-admin@lists.hepe.com Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:14:29 +0100 Subject: [AROS-Announce] IMPORTANT Vote: The Future of AROS Please note that the results of this vote will decide on the future of AROS. If some points are unclear then I might post followup votes to allow people to change their mind. Also please note that votes from developers will have more "weight" than votes from users but nonetheless, every input will be considered. For people not subscribed to the AROS lists: Please reply to digulla@hepe.com Do not send me lengthy comments or obvious things. I will probably not have the time to read lots of comments. Also note that you must have replied until Friday, 24th of March. PLEASE NOTE: I'm doing this to get a better feeling of what people think about AROS and about possible future options of it. I have NOT been threatened by Amiga, H&P or whoever that our project will be killed or anything (quite the contrary). I just must know what my limits are when I have to make decisions about the future or AROS. Anwers can be: 0 - Does not apply, makes no sense 1 - Not at all 2 - I don't like it much 3 - Maybe 4 - I can live with that 5 - I like this. Finally, here are the votes: * Should we stop our work if continuing meant to ruin Amiga Inc ? * Should we stop our work if continuing meant to ruin H&P ? * Should we stop our work if continuing meant to ruin the Classic Amiga market ? * Should AROS work more closely with Amiga Inc ? * Should AROS work more closely with H&P ? * Should AROS form a company of their own ? * Should AROS stay independend from all companies ? * Should AROS stay independend from Amiga Inc ? * Would you accept AROS to become closed source ? * Would you accept AROS to become closed source if this would be the only way to get commercial/legal support, for example from H&P ? * Would you accept that AROS will work only on specific hardware/software (for example, based on WarpUp or Amie) if that was the only way to get support from Amiga Inc. ? * Would you accept AROS to become closed source and working only on specific hardware/software ? * Would you accept that somebody from Amiga Inc. leading this project ? * Should AROS stay independend from any company if Amiga Inc says so ? (for example not accepting any support from them, not talking to them). * If AROS would become a business on its own, would you accept the source to become closed ? * If AROS would become a business on its own, would you accept that it runs only on certain hardware ? * If AROS would become a business on its own, would you accept that it runs only on certain hardware and be closed source ? * Would you join a development team which is working full time on AROS and being payed for your work ? * Would you relocate to Switzerland for this ? * Would you want to stay independend and just being payed by the hour ? * Would you want to stay independend and just work on a per feature basis (that is, the AROS "company" would say "We need feature XXX and offer $$$ for it." and you could apply for that single job). ----------------------------------------------------------- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla "(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than by buying a faster machine." _______________________________________________ AROS-Announce mailing list AROS-Announce@lists.hepe.com http://www.aros.org/mailman/listinfo/aros-announce
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