🚀 go-pugleaf

I usually ignore stupid posts, but this one was more annoying than most.

fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu writes:
> Sounds great.  How about a version that only does icons, crashes often,  
> has maybe half the functionality of the old Icon.app, and costs me $0.   
> Appsoft has GOT to be kidding me if they think this grad student is gonna  
> fork over $300 for an app that comes free with every other computer  
> imaginable.

Icon was unmaintainable crap.  There was no way it was going to evolve into a  
stable app.  It was an embarassment, albeit a necessary one at the time, and it  
probably discouraged the development of decent tools.  I doubt that you can  
find an free app on "any other computer imaginable" with the functionality of  
Image, or the bugginess of Icon.

Appsoft is not the bad guy here.  They're committed to supplying great software  
on the NeXT, and should be applauded.  Furthermore, if you're not willing to  
pay a price that justifies the development of a product, I doubt you're the  
target market for ANYTHING.

> Anyone up for a boycot of this app till the price drops below $30  
> educational for something that does something similar?

The product you suggest would involve about a man-year of work and would  
wholesale for about fifteen bucks.  If you truly have faith in this lucrative  
marketplace, why don't you jump in and reap the profits?  If it's really  
excellent, I'll buy it so that's $15 pre-sold.

-sam

opinions are my own, and I haven't been been a part of any decision-process  
that anyone would get very worked up about.