Here here Rodney!
Exactly what I thought. EA Games are one of the biggest game publishers (the only one to make any profit (from memory) the past year). I don't think EA has plans for the app market let alone a small fanatical userbase.
Secondly, making DPaint open source is truly an honourable thing to do... but honestly, why bother? There are so many better paint packages around that are being supported, why do we need another competitor?
To be blatantly honest, DPaint was powerful at its time for 'traditional art'. But now, we need more powerful Photoshop style tools that allow unrestricted layering and application of filters with a negotiable amount of undo ability and fast updates.
Photoshop can be beaten on the Amiga platform with a far better tool. IMO, Photoshop is very bloated and could do with a bit of lateral thinking on how it's tools and effects are applied. I don't think DPaints legacy of code is going to be powerful enough to allow easy implementation of the features that is expected of a modern paint program without a significant rewrite to the point where the whole project might as well be chucked!
It was a nice little trinket on the A500 and right up to AGA on the 1200... but a little dated 10 years down the track.
Jarrod
