OODL: The FreeCard name --- is it available?

1999-12-11 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, Rob asked: I wouldn't expect a commercial enterprise to name a product with "Free" as the first sylable. The FreeMarket IPO hit yesterday. They doubled their asking price before opening. Its a Pittsburgh firm. It went from $48 to $280. That is a commercial enterprise. That expectation

Re: OODL: A Starting Point for FreeUI

1999-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I think we cab use HC and Mac terminology here, to avoid misunderstandings. That is, FreeCard documents are stacks, the FreeCard engine is simply called the FreeCard application, and a FreeCard page is simply a card. I'm fine with that. * Creation and maintenance of new documents, pages

Re: OODL: Democracy belongs

1999-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I frankly don't see where democracy belongs on this list either. We are not running a society, we're collaborating on a not-for-profit joint creative effort. Alain: So who decides what, when, in what manner, to what end[s] is not [as] important ?? I'm speaking of "secret voting democracy"

Re: OODL: Names, and voting as prerequisite to partnership

1999-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I would hate to think that my absense for a couple of weeks means that I cannot become a partner Hi Adrian, I most certainly wouldn't want that to happen, Adrian My goal was to use the name vote to also resolve a first cut in establishing candidates for partnership. Since I did not offer this

Re: OODL: Names, and voting as prerequisite to partnership

1999-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
Alain: It had not occurred to me that responsibility of voting would be interpreted as a prerequisite that no one ever miss a vote, or risk losing partnership status. Your above statement conveys much better what I was thinking. You too, eh Rob ? Alain, et al: I saw voting on the name as a

Re: OODL: Re Uli's recent update

1999-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
Uli: Or you can send suggestions what you always liked to the list, or about things that annoy you about HC/MC/SC's user interface. I've tried to save a few of those I've seen posted (eg: Judy Perry's list from the HC list). Rob Cozens, CCW http://www.serendipitysoftware.com/who.html "And

Re: Re: OODL: Names, and voting as prerequisite to partnership

1999-12-11 Thread MP0werd
In a message dated 12/11/99 12:13:52 PM, you wrote: Frankly, I was surprised that only six votes were cast (BTW, Uli, I have not received confirmation that I voted). My thought was, "why should people who aren't committed enough to this project to express an opinion receive a partnership?". I

OODL: A Starting Point for FreeUI--II

1999-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I've cleaned this up to use HC object names as Uli suggested and changed the text a bit. Also, as I noted in passing in my message to Uli, my object here is to provide a starting point for a list of general goals and capability requirements, NOT to propose any particular solution. I hope by

OODL: Voting as prerequisite to partnership

1999-12-11 Thread Alain Farmer
Why should people who aren't committed enough to this project to express an opinion receive a partnership? Alain: No. The responsibility of voting and its link to partnership status does not imply that someone who votes one or more times is automatically a partner. Nor does it mean that

OODL: New Feature Requests from HC-List

1999-12-11 Thread Alain Farmer
Uli: Or you can send suggestions what you always liked to the list, or about things that annoy you about HC/MC/SC's user interface. Rob Cozens: I've tried to save a few of those I've seen posted (eg: Judy Perry's list from the HC list). Alain: What a coincidence! I classify all of the