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AROSAROSPosted Dec 19, 2007 19:31 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)Parent article: Insufficiently free?
I'm surprised AROS is it on Richard's list of approved operating systems -- I thought AROS required a binary Kickstart ROM to boot. Anyway, classic Theo and Richard. Richard is still dogmatic as ever, and Theo is still making an ass of himself.
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AROS Posted Dec 20, 2007 11:38 UTC (Thu) by Fats (subscriber, #14882) [Link] I'm surprised AROS is it on Richard's list of approved operating systems -- I thought AROS required a binary Kickstart ROM to boot.No AROS does not need a kickstart to boot. It is a fully open source implementation of the amiga API (UAE is an emulator that needs the kickstart). As an AROS developer myself I do find it strange though that Richard would recommend AROS. Although I can only speak for myself I think for most AROS contributors the open source thing is important but not so much the free software thing. I myself don't have (ethical or moral) problems with using and producing non-free code. I guess also most AROS devs do support the porting of proprietary programs like Hollywood, Alladin 4D etc. to AROS. So maybe someone should recommend to Richard to not recommend AROS anymore as an OS compatible with the free software religion. greets, Staf.
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