DOpus (42/63)

From:Neil Williams
Date:24 Jul 2001 at 14:58:53
Subject:Re: [D5] Bugs

Hihi
On Tuesday July 24 2001, Richard Lane said to Neil Williams:

>> Any thoughts on handing some/all Amiga Opus5 sources to an outside
>> developer to work on?

>> For free, with all profits transfered to GPSoftware? Or something?
>> Please?

RL> I'm desperately looking for a smiley because I can't believe such a

Bah!

RL> proposal is meant to be serious. You expect GPSoftware to hand over
RL> Opus5 which is still a commercial product not a piece of Freeware. Not

Quote the spirtual leader: 'Opus 6 made more money in the last few weeks than
Opus5 in 2 years' or something. It has little value now, if any.

RL> only that but someone should spend many hours working on it from FREE
RL> and then hand over any money.

I would.
I already do on other stuff. Money would be nice, but I'm not going hungry.

RL> Plus who's to say that at some point in
RL> the future that development on the Amiga version wont re-start. Sorry
RL> but I'm totally at a loss to see your reasoning on this.

Ha, yeah. With H&P at the controls of Amiga Inc?
Anyway one: one line in an agreement would sort that: "if GPSoftware wants
Opus5 back, they get it." Anyway two: I'm talking about getting it back in
development. I don't particulary care how that happens.

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