> The number of applications for the Atari is increasing day to day... but I cannot >say the same about the number of users.
Of course the number of applications are increasing since apps do not "disappear". The problem is that some modern software solutions are not available for the Atari.
>So, why you Atari developers doesn't see free software as an alternative for your >proyects? Free apps with source code would help many people to get closer to >the Atari world. I know that programmers need something to eat every day, but >you can still sell your programs... I mean, you can release a free version of your >app with limited features.
There are always demo versions but from my own experiences with publishing demo versions I can tell you that many use the demo as a full version and don't pay for the full one. Also I don't see why a programmer should release a "light" version including the source code and a commercial one. Also I doubt that the source code would bring anyone closer to the Atari.
I have released the source code for some of my smaller programms but I don't need comments in the source code for myself so bigger programs would be hardly understandable for another programmer.
Actually, the best SDKs for PCs aren't free either but you can get GFA-Basic 3.5 + Interface for free or GnuC++ and the shareware version of Agnus.
