Geoff Wicks writes: > Remember your subscription is your money, not Quanta's. How would you like > them to spend it on your behalf?
In a way, hardware development is more deserving as hw developers have real outlays apart from spare time, ie their "profit" can go negative rather than just zero. But how relevant is hw development at this time? Rather than the sexy stuff, like an AuroraII or a Q3500 (mmmm!), we would need things like USB, CD drives and Ethernet just to stay afloat. Can a small sect support such an undertaking, even with leveraged assistance from Quanta? I think possibly the best place to start would be with a survey - a massive and thorough one - to try to determine what punters really, really want. (See http://www.questionpro.com/ for a way of doing it via email or the web) I know our record on responding to surveys has not been great in the past, but things change and lessons are learnt, so, together with the sort of promotion we saw for QL2000, it could still be a sucess. Without it, we are blind and cant really hope to get it right. A survey should determine what people already have and what they wish for; how much they would be prepared to spend on various proposed strategic and desirable items; how punters would respond to un-renewable hardware packing up; how well aware people are of existing alternatives; etc Keep up the good work Geoff! We need it ;) Per
