Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmcel!stoller From: stoller@cbmcel.UUCP (Martin S. Stoller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community. Message-ID: <141@cbmcel.UUCP> Date: 8 Jun 90 07:40:37 GMT References: <20930@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990Jun3.163532.12083@ameristar> <1990Jun5.231451.422@ameristar> Reply-To: stoller@cbmcel.UUCP (Martin S. Stoller) Organization: COMMODORE ELECTRONICS LIMITED Lines: 39 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: >In article <1990Jun5.231451.422@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes: > >Remember, much of the PD work floating around is _not_ the result of > >someone deciding they wanted to make money. It's the result of someone > >saying "I need an X", and discovering that the X's available were (a lot of stuff deleted {MSS}) > If you read my earlier comments closely, you'll see that > I confined my comments to HackerDudes reinventing commercially ^^^^^^^^^^^ > available products, mostly out of motivation that the commercial > software "costs too much". > >Many of them look like valid reasons for wanting to create >the tool yourself. It doesn't matter _why_ the software was written, (more gone to the wind {MSS}) > When all our dreams lay deformed and dead Mike Meyer >We'll be two radioactive dancers mwm@relay.pa.dec.com >Spinning in different directions decwrl!mwm >And my love for you will be reduced to powder Ok. So much said. But what about those (there are many) programs which once were PD or at least ShareWare, and are now COMMERCIAL. I don't mean those which have been commercialized by the original programmers (CYGNUS ED comes to mind, I'm still using VI on an AMIX, but one day I'll buy that super maniacal programmer's ED. I've heard it can now use other fonts. NEAT-O!), I mean those which have been COMMERCIALIZED by people which had gotten the idea from a PD program (or thought of it themselves, it doesn't really matter), after the PD version had been scoring the world. What is their excuse??? So chew on that!!! (please don't flame me, I've been working all night...>;-} ) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Martin S. Stoller, Technical Support Assistant | | Commodore Electronics Limited (CEL), Switzerland | | 'We maveric maniacal programmers must be marvelous...' | | ...the deamomnd ring... | | See ya... Martin S. Stoller | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=