On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:17:55 -0400, nick.grasso@hrads.com wrote:
Well, I would be willing to pay for an upgrade, but I don't think that's the main problem.
First of all, I think it's more of a problem with time rather than money. Anybody with the skill to rewrite Fractint probably already has a full-time, well-paying programming job. I don't think the job of rewriting Fractint can be done in any reasonable length of time by somebody (or even more than one person) working part-time in the evening. And I don't think anybody is going to quit their full-time job to do it as it is doubtful they would make much money with shareware revenue.
Secondly, and more important to me, is that Fractint is open source. I believe in the open source concept, *not* because it allows me to get free software, but because of all the other advantages it has. In fact, it would probably violate the copyright to turn Fractint into shareware. I doubt if Tim would allow it.
I think one problem that needs to be thought about is that most home PCs are now sold with Windows XP, and as has been indicated in recent correspondence, there seem to be problems with getting it to run under XP. It is not always convenient to have to specially install a second operating system, and if the price for using Fractint is to purchase an old copy of Windows (while it is still available), it does mean Fractint becomes quite expensive. I am considering moving to XP in the hope that it will cure some of the Windows Me annoyances. I would not wish to see Fractint disappear. John -- John Lewis, jlewis@clara.net on 25/10/2002