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From:Alan Buxey
Date:23 Apr 2001 at 15:20:58
Subject:Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders)

hi,

> I did look under the bonnet. The features it offers are superficial at best
> and nothing I didn't patch into my system long, long ago. I've been using
> Thomas Richter's fontcache patch for years.

patch for an sync WB?

> For those superficial features, I'd pay nothing. For the bugfixes - well,
> as you say, they should have been in OS3.5. But paying £40 for OS3.5
> and then £40 for OS3.9 because they were too greedy to fix the bugs
> they made for free? That's taking the piss.

30 ukp for os3.5, 20 ukp for os3.9....I shop around

I also paid just as much to have DOpus_magellan 2 - which is just a nice
frontend.

> > if anyone forced me to use one particular dev application then that'll be
> > the day i say goodbye to the Amiga. Amiga means freedom.
>
> Amiga means "friend", duh. Amiga doesn't mean freedom anyway, it
> means free. As in beer. As in you won't get any money from it :P

I know what the Spanich word 'Amiga' means... 'girlfriend' - as in friend
who is female, rather than female you're having nooky with 8-)

Amiga, as in computer, means freedom. a freedom to run it however you
want. develop what you are capable of with it...having a freedom of OS,
patches, 3rd party stuff on it. If its worth having , people will pay for
it (though how much is anyones guess ;-)) I dont mind not making money out
of my machine....it'd be a whore if thats what its job was (and that aint
anyones girlfriend, no matter what the #define is ;-) )

alan

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