I like pymol and I pay for using it, but I think it is no longer effectively open-source if it can't be readily downloaded.
The current fink version of pymol is essential to me because it provides a free way of using a free electrostatics program (apbs) and there are no other alternatives, so even though I pay for pymol, I will still suffer if it is no longer available via fink. If Warren would permit us to grab and svn snapshot and host it as a tarball on the fink sourceforge server, it might help. I predict he will find, in analogy to what the Grateful Dead discovered, that keeping the x-windows version readily and freely available via fink will probably gain him paying sponsors for the native version on OS X in the long run. I use pymol to generate most of my figures for publications, and Science and Cell charge me out the wazoo for these, so a few hundred bucks for the software that permits me to make them isn't such a huge burden. Other heavy users/addicts would likely come to the same conclusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
