Re: [MiNT] Thing

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

I my opinion the cost of Thing is very reasonable.  It's proven
itself to be very solid on my system, and a joy to use.
I would love to have the '1.27e update' which was only released
in German I think.  However it would probably be better to
focus on newer versions.  I'd gladly pay a small update fee for
a newer one, assuming there was an English version.  I have heard
really good things about newer versions.

In my opinion making something open source just to get it for "free
sounds like the wrong thing to do.

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:41:21 -0500, Frederic Fouche wrote:

>I am not gonna answer for Thomas, but in my opinion, why would Thing need
>to be Open-Source?  shareware, freeware, commercial are also good
>alternatives, especially in the case of Thing.
>My question rather would be, when is 1.29 and 1.3x version gonna be
>released, if ever. As they have been proven to work really well, probably
>better than 1.27.
>
>On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Standa Opichal wrote:

>> Well, I do have a question to consult in public I think...
>>
>> What is goning the Thing development continue like? Is there any chance to
>> get it open-source? I'm looking for a free desktop. Unfortunatelly there
>> is no (or not useable, although I haven't met any) open-source one. It is
>> quite bad thing to have open-source OS without really cool desktop. The
>> original Atari TOS or MultiTOS is not the thing we are all looking for,
>> is it?
>>
>> can you say a word on this?

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