I have recently made the switch to mac, and for the most part I am very happy. I love the Operating system, and even more so, I love the hardware. However, I miss Total Commander. As a result, I have tried the following:
- Disk Order
Pathfinder
ForkLift
Double Commander
muCommander
Konqueror
xFolders
However, I did notice that Double Commander can be compiled cross-platform due to it's use of Free Pascal toolkits. Total Commander is written in Delphi 2, which is a derivative of Pascal. Also, there are frameworks available for Delphi to also make it cross compilable.
As a result, I was wondering if Ghisler might be interested in perhaps cooperating with another developer, perhaps some one skilled in OSX and Linux coding, to port the Total Commander first to a crosscompilable framework, and then to OSX and Linux. The Linux side of things would not be very profitable, as Linux users in general do not like paying for software. (just and idological thing, not because they are deadbeats, I am a linux user my self) However, OSX side might in fact be very, very profitable for Ghisler and company. First, because all OSX users would be new customers, not old customers simple downloading updates for free. Second, in general Mac Users are just more likely to actually pay for software.
Any thoughts? I know it's not easy to crosscompile apps for 3 operating systems, but I also think that it would be profitable and beneficial to the world.