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Subject: Amethyst Users & MOTU Support
Message-ID: <13530@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 23:17:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 23:17:00 1983
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From:  Billy <BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB>

I have been terribly dissapointed with the Amethyst users group. I had
hoped that Mince would have been a living extendable entity similar to
EMACS.

We have made a few modifications to Mince here but nothing major.
Nobody has offered any changes as I suspect they are loath to send
MOTU copyright source code through the net. It would be really neat to
see a major extention such as mouse support or a mail reading package
that we could offer in the INFO-IBMPC lending library.

Would MOTU like to donate a set of Mince and Scribble sources to the
public domain?  Then perhaps we could actively trade improvements. It
seems to me that either you support a product or you let hackers "fend
for themselves".  As MOTU hasn't even added DOS 2.0 pathname support
yet, It seems like we are fending for ourselves, but only on a site by
site basis.