ImageDisk project is canceled

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doc Shipley" <doc at mdrconsult.com> To: <General at mdrconsult.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:43 PM Subject: Re: ImageDisk project is canceled I always thought that if there really is demand for a utility then atleast a token amount of money should be charged for that utility. You will find that people who claim to need changes to the utility but are unwilling to pay a few bucks for a new revision should just be ignored, they remind me of friends who keep taking up your personal time fixing their computers as long as you do it for free but once a token amount is asked for the time involved (even just a free lunch) these same people get pissy and refuse. It is funny how some people will spend vast amounts of money for computer hardware but very little if any for the software that makes the machine usable. You do not owe the world the source code for your hard work period. If people want to use some of your code they should pay for it or write their own. Sales should be a yardstick to measure if continuing the development of the utility is worth the effort. Sooner or later the people who needed the utility will already have it, at that point you can quit developing and destroy the source code or release it in any manner you like. Why do I get the feeling that people who push really hard for open sourcing just want to use your knowledge and time for free in their projects?