This would, indeed, be great. I have my fingers crossed waiting to see it list in aminet...
Ditto. I'm not a big developer but I've sold one piece of software and then later given it away free, and I can tell you offering an old binary is quicker than putting out source code.
In my case when I've later gone to give away the source I found areas of code that needed significant commenting, formatting, documenting and changing (hard coded copyright etc). As I was in the area of reviewing source I may see small bugs I can fix or improvements and would add them.
In all the source release would often be improved and have an equivalent binary release to go with it.IMHO the author of PFS3 should have full knowledge of what his options are before he releases the software as PD/open source, and whether somebody is still willing to give him money for it (
) - I'd do the same. I still have my fingers crossed and it is a shame if there are nefarious goings on, but I'd feel duped if I too realised later somebody was still willing to provide money for my software that I deemed commercial.
FWIW my software dropped to sales of about 5 a year (at £2 a pop) from 2-5 a month and at that point as the community for the software had shrunk significantly (Linux based Sharp Zaurus) the good will thing was to give back to a community that had supported me in other ways.
Incidentally all
my software these days is open source
