Who knows? Maybe this way someone will actually clear up the interface so that Deep will appeal to a wider audience, not just the patient. If Jack originally started Deep to be the very best Doom editor around with no exception, then freely avalable source code would enable people to maintain it long after he has lost interest in a project he no longer gains from, and more importantly, improve it. I believe it should become free, although not just free in terms of cost - free in terms of being completely open. I can't imagine Jack makes that much money at all from selling his program now. The idea _may_ be a sound one from one perspective - who gets parts for a clapped-out old chevy free? - but in the world of computing an ever moving standard in software dictates that Deep's sell-by date has nearly ran out. Kudos - it's quite hard work maintaining and updating a feature-packed and (largely) bug-free editor.īut, times are changing, Doom (Not III, and not just limited to editing the classic Doom.Doom2) is more of a hobbyist choice than anything, and still - mostly by the mass PC polulace, who believe that newest = best - it's looked down upon by our peers. Jack still wants to make money on it, which is fine for him.
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