[AROS-Announce] AROS, MorphOS and Amiga Inc

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Since there has been some confusion, here are some reliable
infos about the relationship between AROS and MorphOS.

MorphOS wants to provide an Amiga clone and they need some
code to fill gaps in their emulation (for example, parts of
Intuition). They asked us if they could use our work and,
being an open source project, we "allowed" them to port
parts of AROS to MorphOS.

This is exactly the same what we did when Haage&Partner
approached us whether they can use our Colorwheel gadget
in OS 3.9 which we "allowed", too.

I say "allowed" because that is essentially what we want
them to do :-) AROS is meant as a test labratory to develop
new technologies which might prove useful for the next
versions of the AmigaOS. We do this independently of
Amiga Inc, MorphOS and H&P but always with the goal to
provide them with something useful as well as providing
adventurous Amiga users with something that feels quite
familiar.

So AROS and MorphOS have not "joined forces" or become
one project. MorphOS just uses part of our work which
is what our work is meant for.

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