BRACKENRIDGE%USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (11/09/83)
From: Billy <BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB> I have been terribly dissapointed with the Amethyst users group. I had hoped that Mince would have been a living extendable entity similar to EMACS. We have made a few modifications to Mince here but nothing major. Nobody has offered any changes as I suspect they are loath to send MOTU copyright source code through the net. It would be really neat to see a major extention such as mouse support or a mail reading package that we could offer in the INFO-IBMPC lending library. Would MOTU like to donate a set of Mince and Scribble sources to the public domain? Then perhaps we could actively trade improvements. It seems to me that either you support a product or you let hackers "fend for themselves". As MOTU hasn't even added DOS 2.0 pathname support yet, It seems like we are fending for ourselves, but only on a site by site basis.