slowtiger wrote:Nobody is going to buy a program, may it be as cheap as 50 cent, without knowing what it is capable of - at least no animator (they are notoriously poor) will spend any money for something he couldn't see in action. From lots of bad experience I say: animation software must be tested, never bought just by the blurbs. If efrontier doesn't react to this, people will start sharing old Moho installers.
Good point, slowtiger. This discussion seems to be fired by the fact that AS has become a lot more expensive than Moho used to be. I understand why AS costs a lot more (see note **). I also understand why the high cost could be an obstacle for beginning or unemployed animators.
Turning Moho into open source would be a big gamble, because it is very unsure how many programmers and developers would be willing to contribute to the source code for a long time. Animation authoring software has a rather small niche and I guess many good programmers who contribute to an open source project do so, because they want to add that to their resume. I also guess having Moho as a project on your resume will not impress many future employers. I could be wrong, of course.
Perhaps the developer of Moho/AS is more interested in animation studios, because they have the money to buy copies of AS. AFAIK animation studios primarily use Flash MX for web and television animation. They are still not aware that AS exists and what the potentials are for new types of animation. This market strategy makes sense to me.
** Note: The development of Moho had come to a grinding halt because of lack of time of the developer and a bigger, more costly, business was needed to ensure future development.
