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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
23 Jan 2012 10:03
| I have asked this to gpsoft, the owner of Directory Opus Magellan II: The other question is, would it be
possible to open the source (f.e. for using it in Aros) and how much would you want to have for it? I would ask to make a bounty for it, perhaps there is enough interest. And the answer was:
For the source, we would want something like A$5-10K. What do you think? Should we make a bounty?
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Golgoth 27
France
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Posts 185
23 Jan 2012 13:56
| If there is a bounty, i will donate. Hoping that somebody serious will continue the developement. (Is it australian or US dollars ?)
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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
23 Jan 2012 14:06
| The company is from Australia and there is a "A" before "$" so I think he means australian Dollar. you get 1$ for 0,80 EUR that means between 4000 and 8000 EUR
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Rune Stensland
Norway
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Posts 871
23 Jan 2012 17:48
| I would like to donate. With the sourcecode, we can optimize it for natami and bundle it with the preinstalled software package..
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Carsten Roth
Germany
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Posts 39
23 Jan 2012 19:49
| +1 I see the same. I have used Directory Opus many years in various versions on my Amiga and it would definitely be an asset to the Natami software package.
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Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands
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Posts 3974
23 Jan 2012 21:15
| It's not the primary directory system.
However i do agree it is a handy one.there are currently more pressing maters like bug hunting and drivers. ;)
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
23 Jan 2012 22:38
| We are many in the team with different skills. It is actually very cool that we have the capability to do so many things in parallel. Thomas is of course the most important person, but all the more reason for us others to do stuff he should not have to think about.
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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
23 Jan 2012 22:46
| i got the answer from the person who got the license years ago. He wrote the code was good and well documented and the reason it failed was because the programmer had other problems.
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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
24 Jan 2012 09:02
| Good news. Greg accepts A$5000 as minimum and opensource it.
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
24 Jan 2012 10:00
| Nice work! :-)
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Golgoth 27
France
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Posts 185
24 Jan 2012 15:30
| Great news, i hope the bounty will be a success.
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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
24 Jan 2012 18:04
| I have created a bounty-text: EXTERNAL LINK
feedback welcome
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Guillaume Michalakakos
France
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Posts 454
24 Jan 2012 18:33
| This is a really nice idea !
I will give money for this bounty for sure !
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Chris Dennett
United Kingdom
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Posts 135
26 Jan 2012 10:27
| I always liked FileMaster on the Amiga :) I wonder if the source is available for that?
EXTERNAL LINK
Edit: Yep: EXTERNAL LINK
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Rune Stensland
Norway
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Posts 871
27 Jan 2012 08:19
| Dopus is more than a file master. It's a window replacement for workbench...
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Nixus Minimax
Germany
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Posts 272
27 Jan 2012 09:51
| Rune Stensland wrote:
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Dopus is more than a file master. It's a window replacement for workbench...
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Can it do so much more than Workbook or whatever the AROS Workbench implementation is called? I can understand that the source costs $$$, but I think that a good workbench replacement shouldn't be out of reach for a small team of spare time programmers even when outclassing Workbench featurewise as does Dopus. Calculating carefully with just a few hundreds of Natamis sold, the source for Dopus alone would be in the range of 10$ per unit.
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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
27 Jan 2012 09:53
| It is called Wanderer and yes it can do much more. Right now Wanderer is still one of the weakest points of Aros.
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
27 Jan 2012 10:58
| Also, this is a cross platform bounty for DOpus. Natami has very little to do with it.
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Olaf Schoenweiss
Germany
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Posts 782
30 Jan 2012 09:30
| I have the answer of GPSoft. They only want to release the source AFTER payment. I do not know if there is then still interest and I should create the bounty. What do you think? I do not think GPSoft wants to cheat us but nevertheless I do not want to take the risk for the whole sum (but of course for my donation). What do you think?
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
30 Jan 2012 09:53
| I have seen GPSoft as a very reputable and serious company. I have a hard time believing they would jeopardize their reputation for a mere AUD 5000. There are source code escrow services, but they typically cost USD1000 or more, not worth it. If they don't put up the source after payment, it's going to haunt them forever. They, on the other hand left the Amiga biz a long time ago and have their Windows products. If they monitor the Amiga world at all, they know there is a lot of shady stuff out there, so for them to hold on to the code until after payment is only natural I think. To them it's like you would buy 30 copies of DOpus on CD, they would not send them until you paid with your VISA or whatever.
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