A-EON Technology Acquires Personal Paint

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Awesome!

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If I were a regular user of software, I'd much rather lose the ability to get it for free than have it stagnate and get old. I can't help but feel that if we want development of programs to continue or restart, we have to get rid of this "I want it but don't want to pay for it" psyche which seems so prevalent in Amiga circles these days.
I know it's nice to have free software, but I think it's nicer to have actively developed software at a small cost.

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Any feedback is most welcome for new features and suggestions for future development.

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When will A-EON stop shooting themselves in the foot? The correct way of handling this seems pretty obvious to most of us.

Care to elaborate on how further development of a great piece of software can possible be "shooting themselves in the foot"

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You would be surprised what a developer charges.  In the Amiga world, we get very low rates compared to other platforms, but it still adds up to a sizeable cost.  We don't want to charge a high ticket price for the software, so its a balance of number of users to retail price for the software.

Where I work we charge no less than 200 euros an hour, so development don't come cheap.