Avipreview OpenSource Initiative?

Hello, today I looking for the program Avipreview I found the owner
(Andrei Jefremov) is selling the program plus the domain.

I was wandering if it is possible to ask for a fund to pay this person
so he can make the software Open Source, personally I think it is a
good tool, I have used it to preview video download.

To the people that has not used it these are the features as described
by the author:

# Preview AVI, divX, MPG, MPEG and VideoCD files without interruption
of the download process
# Uses standard DirectX framework - no additional software needed
# Very simple interface
# Does not change the original video file in any way
# Tested extensively with P2P and FTP

What do you think?

Just as a follow up, after emailing with the author, he is asking for
$8,000 for the program. Does anyone think it would be a feasible goal?

Thanks!

On 18 Apr 2005 03:59:06 -0700, "obaqueiro" <obaqueiro@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Just as a follow up, after emailing with the author, he is asking for
>$8,000 for the program. Does anyone think it would be a feasible goal?

Why not set up a website and see who else is interested? Direct them
to register and also indicate how much they are willing to contribute
for the functionality.

If in a month-or-so you get enough donors, then it's a go. If not,
then maybe it's not feasible...
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Michael B. Johnson