ImageDisk project is canceled

I don't claim to be a programmer at all. But I will make this claim. It's a lot easier to discover a bug in software if you have seen the sources. I know for a fact it's a lot easier to see possible design bugs in hardware if you have the schematics (because that I have done many times). For the machines I _use_, yes I do. Even a couple of my calculators. No, they are not open-source in the FSF sense, but the source code is available. My views changed majorly once I started to run Minix (not open-source, but source available) and more particularly linux. I found I had many fewer problems because I could read the source to find the cause of an error message (rather than just an entry in the manual), I found I could modify and fix things. Sometimes the problem would be due to my somewhat unconventional hardware (which I would not expect anyone to support other than me). I could either fix the problem with the hardware (e.g. a port bit was not doing the right thing in some odd circumstance) or I could patch the program. And having dscovered the advantages of being able to do that, I am not going to go back, certainly not on a machine that I depend on. I am not sure anyone can repair a chip. Are you suggesting I start moving atoms around to correct the wrong doping levels, oxided metal traces, etc? Maybe to you, but it's not happened here yet. -tony