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Re: PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource
« on: May 29, 2010, 03:14:23 AM »
So... what exactly happened here?  and how does one get a subscription to the AF magazine?  The website is in broken german and I have no idea how to pay for a subscription.
 

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Re: PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2010, 04:01:24 AM »
I'm mainly confused by the chronology.  AFAIK, it went :

1.  Gulliver emails old crusty developer asks for open source, gets answerin affirmative.
2.  Crusty developer (or CD) needs help getting source off old media, etc.  Which he gets.
3.  AF magazine asks Gulliver for contact info for CD (out of the blue?), which Gulliver gives out.
4. ????
5.  Gulliver gets reply that CD is now only distributing through AF magazine.


There seems to be  lot missing in this story, especially around the region 4 there...  I guess the inclination is that CD is getting paid by AF?  If so, why is that bad?  I realize he suggested he'd release it open source, but it ain't like the economy is really great, and amiga magazines were the way cool crap got distributed.  So, after heading over to Amigakit it looks like its 10 bucks a magazine, or 80 some for an annual subscription.  Hey, I'm all for open source, but I am also all for someone making some scratch off of their labor as well, even if he was gently reminded that something he did in the past has some demand.  I for one would like to hear more detail about what transpired before passing judgement.  I will also, though, most likely throw down my 10 dollars to encourage the man to "come back to the (amiga) light", as it were.
 

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Re: PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2010, 05:54:51 AM »
Wow!  No idea that this guy was such a dirtbag.  What a bummer :(
 

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Re: PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2010, 12:52:48 AM »
Any more info as to this issue?
 

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Re: PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2010, 08:30:09 PM »
Thanks, Gulliver!  This illuminates the issue sufficently for me :).