----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
> > I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an > upgrade to Text 87 and suggested that he could produce a new version > using the new colours and adding simple stuff like access to pointer > driven menus for file selection (via Menu_rext). He was not keen. I > suggested he gave us the sources and we could get someone to do it but > he regarded his sources as being secret ..... Ah yes, but was he offered serious money? > > Qliberator was another story but Ian Stewart, who was my only contact, > had only a small part in writing it. The other author, whose name > escapes me, had long since disappeared and the sources were not > available. I have now no contact for Ian so when the last few copies I > have are exhausted I cannot sell it. I have not sold a copy for some > time so I am not too worried but I would have liked to get it updated. > -- This is really disappointing, because, if the sources were available they would probably be relatively cheap to buy. It would have been a valuable contribution to the future of the QL. But again, would money help in a search for the source code? Don't forget I am not suggesting asking people for the source code, but buying it. No trader could afford to do this, because it would have to be done at a loss. Quanta does have the resources and this could become one way in which Quanta could better serve the QL community. Geoff
