independence off their own bat and insisted on doing all the work for any port themselves (paid for by the customer) rather than using the customer's expertise. Who they thought was going to act against their own interests and blindly backroll development for their competitors, I don't know. ROL has lost their way. I would very much like to see them get back on track, but they have to do something drastic or radical, such as OSSing what they have, or something even more serious. Agreed. The three options in the article are, IMO, equally unthinkable - RISC OS is obviously unsustainable as a commercial closed-source venture, but it would be a real shame to lose all the improvements RO6 has over RO5. Of course, there are three more options: (1) RISC OS Ltd open-sources their branch of the OS and hands development over to ROOL to attempt to merge the two branches. Indubitably the best option, and the least likely to happen. (2) ROL finally goes into administration, taking users' cash with it. The commercial source is lost, or forever locked away over endless arguments over copyright. Probably the eventual outcome, certainly while the two camps lock horns and refuse to budge. (3) As above, but the developers (all, what, three of them?) take matters into their own hands and merge the principal changes into the ROOL branch. This may be unnecessarily hopeful. Message #111845, posted by thegman at 13:47, 8/11/2009, in reply to message #111838 Member Posts: 61