?! How hard is it to set the beginning end time channel? Really?!
Or punch in a VCR Plus code?
If it was just that ... but somehow the codes in the TV programme aren't
the same our VCR expects, I always get the wrong times on the wrong
channel, even though both claim to be "ShowView".
Apart
Anthony: I plan to see to it that FreeCard itself can
run on anything, from embedded with displays of all
sorts of odd geometries to console to your nice 21" to
a multi-foot multiscreen.
Alain: Yes, the application/interpreter should not
have any impact on the GUI. They are un-related
processes,
At 11:21 AM -0700 on 4/8/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
[And actually, as soon as I get a gcc for it, I plan
to have an Interpreter running on my TI-89]
Alain: A programmable calculator? ;-)
What's so odd about that? It already is programmable, in TI-BASIC and
M68K assembly -- why not FreeTalk?
In a message dated 4/8/2000 2:28:41 AM, you wrote:
[And actually, as soon as I get a gcc for it, I plan to have an
Interpreter running on my TI-89]
go to www.ticalc.org and build a link-cable for it. I built one for my TI-85,
but unfortunately, they're PC only :-(
Anthony: Ouch! Let's make a standard for FreeCard
clear: It will work on 13" (640x480) monitors.
Alain: I suggest a 14" (640x480). That is what I have
standardized on for years now. This monitor size and
resolution are by far the most commonly found. Smaller
screens than this are dinosaurs
Adrian: I have one more request. Do you have an automated way to add the line:
?require("/footer.require")?
to each html file of the web site, just before the /BODY tag?
Adrian: I ask this because we really should put a link on the bottom to let
people contact the website administrator. By
At 6:18 PM -0800 on 3/31/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Adrian: I am currently in the process of mirroring as
much of the FreeCard website as I can to
freecard.sourceforge.net ...
I hope you have heard of `wget --mirror`
Alain: I hope you started with the downloads and other
non-web-site stuff. I
At 11:15 PM +1000 on 4/1/00, Adrian Sutton wrote:
Adrian: I have one more request. Do you have an automated way to add
the line:
?require("/footer.require")?
to each html file of the web site, just before the /BODY tag?
Use a sed/mv combination on SourceForge's Unix login.
Adrian: Do you have an automated way to add the
line:
?require("/footer.require")?
to each html file of the web site, just before the
/BODY tag?
Alain: Yes. BBEdit.
Adrian: I ask this because we really should put
a link on the bottom to let people contact the
website administrator.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
At 11:15 PM +1000 on 4/1/00, Adrian Sutton wrote:
Adrian: I have one more request. Do you have an automated way to add
the line:
?require("/footer.require")?
to each html file of the web site, just before the /BODY tag?
Use a sed/mv combination on
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
At 6:18 PM -0800 on 3/31/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Adrian: I am currently in the process of mirroring as
much of the FreeCard website as I can to
freecard.sourceforge.net ...
I hope you have heard of `wget --mirror`
Adrian: Nope, and it's not the best
Eric: I despair of ever getting any feedback
on the work I have done on the gui.
Alain: I understand and I sympathize with you, Eric,
but unfortunately this lack-of-feedback is a chronic
problem in our group. Several of Uli's contributions
scarcely elicited more than a thank you. My first
Any way I would like to hear from people who have an opinion - it is not
really fair to criticize the existing gui without offering constructive
alternatives; i am trying to offer such alternatives, but since I have no
feedback - well, anyway, _I like it.
Eric,
I guess my message didn't get
Uli: ... you didn't stuff the MetaCard stacks,
so I didn't get them in any usable format.
Alain: I got a stuffed/binhexed version, but the
stacks were not recognized by the MetaCard
application, and thus could not be opened.
Uli: They went through Eudora's text conversion,
some 7-bit Unix
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Adrian: I am currently in the process of mirroring as
much of the FreeCard website as I can to
freecard.sourceforge.net ...
Alain: I hope you started with the downloads and other
non-web-site stuff. I have just finished adapting the
links of the web site
Alain: Either way, NetPresenz really sucks when it
comes to configuring it. For one thing, the
mail-server never ever worked. That's water under the
bridge, eh! But its configuration-suckiness does not
stop there. Our current problem with MIME-types is
usually an extremely easy problem to
Adrian: Perhaps it's a setting in the Internet
control panel. It has mime types there and
NetPresenz seems to use the Mac settings
as much as possible.
Alain: Good idea, but it didn't work. By the way,
these MIME prefs are actually kept by InternetConfig,
not by the Internet cdev.
I
At 12:59 PM +0200 on 3/27/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Alain,
it's simple: Netscape does as it's supposed to and uses the MIME types to
identify files, why IE goes by the suffixes. The bug in Netscape fixes the
I think you mean
Adrian: Netscape seems to think that the HTML pages on
the FreeCard Website are of type
"application/octet-stream" and so won't display them.
Alain: I have the same problem with Netscape, but
everything is fine with MS-Explorer. Go figure??
Alain: This is somewhat 'heretical' because I swear
They've missed a very important thing: FreeCard does not act like a
compiler. It isn't a compiler. It's like the Perl interpreter, exceppt
that the standalone is a combination of the interpreter, lots of
support stuff, and the script in one file.
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They've missed a very important thing: FreeCard does not act like a
compiler. It isn't a compiler. It's like the Perl interpreter, exceppt
that the standalone is a combination of the interpreter, lots of
support stuff, and the script in one file.
Sorry. Please
At 5:29 PM +0100 on 3/11/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Render larger, shrink on copy. Avoids pixelization.
Anthony,
at small sizes it doesn't. Then you'd just have a irregular black bar if
you're unlucky.
Playing with text that small by any method can easily give you a mess.
For small text, we
Render larger, shrink on copy. Avoids pixelization.
Anthony,
at small sizes it doesn't. Then you'd just have a irregular black bar if
you're unlucky.
If there is no scaling copybits, we'd probably be writing one anyway.
It's not that hard to do one. And beating CopyBit's is not that hard
At 1:50 PM +0100 on 3/5/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
BTW: I noticed something neat -- X on Unix allows reals for the number
of points in a font. Hmmm...
Anthony,
just reminds me that I have code to draw text in a box. That is, scaled to
exactly fit into the box, stretched and skewed as
Does not matter --- we can fake it if they don't.
Anthony,
I'm not so sure... on the Mac it depends on mucking around with the numer
and denom parameters to StdText() and such things ... it really would need
to be supported by these other platforms, or we might get ugly pixelized
text (and
BTW: I noticed something neat -- X on Unix allows reals for the number
of points in a font. Hmmm...
Anthony,
just reminds me that I have code to draw text in a box. That is, scaled to
exactly fit into the box, stretched and skewed as necessary. Do other
platforms allow this, too? This would
At 12:42 PM -0800 on 2/28/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Eric: I'm going to have to continue my UI paper
after hearing this. Drat. Was hoping to avoid it...
Alain: Does your paper deal mainly with aesthetics, or
is it focused on the knowledge-engineering aspects of
GUI design? (ergonomie cognitive).
At 3:06 AM -0700 on 2/28/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to have to continue my UI paper after hearing this. Drat. Was
hoping to avoid it...
--PLEASE tell me what you want then - you would be far more likely to get it
because I cannot read minds.
That's what my UI paper is. It's rather
Eric: (do _you really want to chase down _every
link and change its style? Manually? I do not,
though a script could probably
be written to do it).
Alain: Syntax coloring and such is usually a scripted
process, as it should be. Nothing stopping you from
doing this manually, but I feel that
--No. MetaCard uses bold to indicate hypertext links. Since the WWW standard
is to underline and change the color of links this standard is in fact a bad
idea. But I am not going to argue it (do _you really want to chase down _every
link and change its style? Manually? I do not, though a script
Um, well, MetaCard error dialogue already lets the user choose to edit the
script. In other words, I think it's fine. Givin the user the choice is very
good. The error dialog also tells the user line and character. And if the user
still has an error when the script is saved the script (unlike HC)
I still need to know a list of cross platform fonts. So far I have chicago,
arial and helvetica. What other fonts are available on all systems?
Eric,
Chicago is standard on Mac, however it's Apple-only. Few Windows or Linux
users will have it.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
At 12:32 PM -0700 on 2/25/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Other than that I think the MC interface is just fine. Ok, some more menus
would be nice, neater palettes, and again these are just cosmetic changes.
I'm going to have to continue my UI paper after hearing this. Drat. Was
hoping to avoid
At 11:41 AM -0500 on 2/22/00, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
Yes, we should move our core efforts to SourceForge or some other outlet
like that. But, I see no need to shop around.
Huh? Moving it around -- especially after people start to know about
the site, bookmark to it, etc. -- would be a major
At 10:54 PM +0100 on 2/20/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
KUTGW.
Pardon?
Keep up the good work
^^ ^ ^^
At 2:20 AM +0100 on 2/19/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Oh yeh... that's right. Die R/B tree, die! :)
Anthony,
you wouldn't guess who I met at the funeral ... Multimap!
KUTGW.
Not that I mind seeing them go, but what was so bad about R/B trees and
multimaps? They are pretty standard, well-tested stuff and they are fast.
No, multimap was a guest. So to say the person who's just been waiting to
take over R/B tree's job.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
I don't think we have one. Especially since "international" usually
implies that people from all over the world meet in this one same place,
right?
Yes, international usually means that. But they have sub-regionals and
regionals first, and then the winners go on to the international one
Oh yeh... that's right. Die R/B tree, die! :)
Anthony,
you wouldn't guess who I met at the funeral ... Multimap!
I haven't really tried it much. I'll look into it once we have a
release. Maybe by then we'll also have some more people with experiance
in such things. But right now, it's not
At 2:29 PM +0100 on 2/17/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Agreed. Wonder how mad the ISEF will get that I didn't give them a
social "security" number? Do they have an ISEF in Germany?
Dunno. What is ISEF? incredibly stupid e-mail faults?
International Science and Engineering Fair
Agreed. Wonder how mad the ISEF will get that I didn't give them a
social "security" number? Do they have an ISEF in Germany?
Dunno. What is ISEF? incredibly stupid e-mail faults?
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
Hmmm... what's wrong with the red/black tree? Why not fix it? Never saw
any problems in the XBF testers.
Hi,
the code to delete an entry is buggy (no wonder, I wrote it without
knowing anything about R/B trees!). As map and multimap are usually
implemented as R/B trees, too, I'll just use a
At 11:12 AM -0700 on 2/15/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lessee... where was i.
Oh Yeah... arm a geddon.
Isn't that one word? Get some sleep, Eric.
Well, yesterdays hak was in my opinion bigger in effect than Ynot2k...
What hack? I haven't heard anything -- let me check NANOG. Don't see
At 12:07 AM +0100 on 2/16/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
I think we'll do differently. For now, stick with MetaCard. When I have
the file format working (due to bugs in the red/black tree I have to use a
multimap instead which requires a couple of code changes)
Hmmm... what's wrong with the
What else is happening? The colorized tab stops look good. Trust me, you WON'T
have difficulty finding your scripts (using the tooltip to say 'hey, click on
the control (apple) alt and double click to open the script !' Really i think
Hi,
what exactly are you doing with tab stops and color ?
Am working around the script limitations for the menubars by naming menuitems
commands (which i think is good - reinforces script syntax for newbies) and DO
but as i understand DO is an _evil (time consuming) command so we shall
see...
Eric,
you're sounding the way my head feels right now.
At 10:06 AM -0800 on 2/12/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Uli: 1) It uses JavaScript. I'm paranoid.
Alain: Security-wise, JavaScript is no worse than
other languages, it seems to me. The most recent
incarnation of JS has been overhauled in terms of
security. Which is good, I am sure, but which caused
I think that both these tools are really nice for complicated development.
True mc 'precompiles' (or whatever) scripts so that it is tougher to make a
programming error than in hc, but script errors do happen, and it is really
nice to be able to watch global variables.
hmm, come to think of it i
At 10:30 AM -0800 on 2/6/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
matteob: there's a external res to convert html to
Alain: I am going to re-launch the UFP again. We are a
group of veteran scripters who want to make HyperCard
into an even-better Rapid Application Development
(RAD) tool than it already is, by
Oh. I got the impression you were from the questions on optimizing chunks.
No, I mainly asked those since I'll need chunks in joker, too, and I
thought we both might profit from sharing our past experiences in
that regard.
Thankyou for the offer. I'll see if there is anything I can use once
Uli: (make sure you have the newest version
from my web site)
Alain: http://www.weblayout.com/witness
Oh, I just realized I didn't have support for text files in there
yet, only for ".hpg" files, which is pure HTML. I'll upload a new
stack shortly.
Regarding the visually handicapped: I agree the GUI must be able to be used by
the visually impaired. My brother in law is . The ususal solution is a virtual
magnifying glass (apple bundles one standard though they do exist for ibm as
well).
I think a solution would be make 'normal' gui, then E
At 12:20 AM -0500 on 1/22/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on openStack --merryxmas antibody
-- DO NOT DELETE THIS CODE, it keeps the virus known as merryxmas
-- OFF your computerwritten by: The Black Knight
That's the antibody virus, it's not a trojan, it's a virus.
I didn't notice
At 11:11 AM -0800 on 1/22/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Alain: Semantics .. semantics .. either way, we have
to get rid of the damned thing. It has infected
hundreds of my stacks, on both my servers.
ALain, the following will protect against most HC viruses. It is what
notified me of the thing in
At 12:20 AM -0500 on 1/22/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on openStack --merryxmas antibody
-- DO NOT DELETE THIS CODE, it keeps the virus known as merryxmas
-- OFF your computerwritten by: The Black Knight
That's the antibody virus, it's not a trojan, it's a virus.
I didn't notice
Hi All,
Eric Engle wrote to us:
If we want to create a partnership just let me know (the subject has been
quiet, which is good, i prefer action to talk).
I prefer prior planning (talk) so as to prevent poor performances
(miss-guided actions). I think that the early stab at the partnership
At 5:37 PM +0100 on 1/13/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Who does what?
Get the NNTP stuff up and running. We need someone who takes care of
it. Any volunteers?
I guess I'm probabably doing it, being one of the few supporters.
I volunteer to help.
At 12:03 AM +0100 on 1/10/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Hmmm... I have an idea for our mailing list: How about going to NNTP? We
could run INN on the box. AFAIK, the interface of MTNW is _far_ better for
the types of discussions we have than Eudora (or any other mail client).
Imagine -- real
At 11:35 PM +1000 on 1/9/00, Paul Sutton wrote:
Anthony: How about going to NNTP?
Mark: No thanks.
Adrian: I'm with you on this.
If you want threading, gateway this list to that one on NNTP.
Adrian: NNTP threading isn't all it's cracked up to be. We often change
the topic of the conversation
At 10:29 PM -0500 on 1/9/00, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
Now, back to regular on-topic talk. Sorry to go off-topic. Just had to vent.
Heh. Youy think that's bad... just go search the archive for my message
after Windows Media Player screwed up one of my disks...
Anthony: How about going to NNTP?
Mark: No thanks.
Adrian: I'm with you on this.
If you want threading, gateway this list to that one on NNTP.
Adrian: NNTP threading isn't all it's cracked up to be. We often change
the topic of the conversation and should at that point change the
subject,
At 6:55 PM -0800 on 1/8/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Adrian: How about going to NNTP?
Alain: I am not against the idea but, when I suggested
something similar several months ago, the suggestion
was flatly rejected.
Primarily due to problems solved by running a single server. Remember, back
then I
At 8:04 AM -0700 on 1/4/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Alternative would be setting up as an 'unincorporated association'.
...
If people think that
1) a licensing agreement can be set up by consensus (i'm sceptical)
We did it before, then several new people came and we started discussing it
Hi,
Why not just FreeCard.org? [is it not availible?]
Its not available. The domains that are include some our enemies might
desire. (FWIW, Tis a 'Baa Humbug' kinda joke I guess.):
CARDFREE.NET CARDFREE.ORG
Of course, there was the list I sent prior -- all available.
Mark Rauterkus
I've tried to save a few of those I've seen posted (eg: Judy Perry's list
from the HC list).
Rob,
can you make them available, maybe on the web site? Or e-mail them to me
so i can put them up.
Uli, et al:
I have gathered together all postings to the HC List over the last year or
so that
Or those who mind the hassle to get an FTP-client fired up and upload the
files... most of those still aren't user friendly and reliable enough.
Uli, et al:
If you're willing to pay for FTP-client software, try Vicom's FTP Client:
point-and-click, drag-and-drop, and stable.
Rob Cozens, CCW
can you make them available, maybe on the web site? Or e-mail them to me
so i can put them up.
Uli,
I'm feeling pressure on several different fronts; so it's unlikely I can
get to it before next weekend. I'll do what I can and let you know.
Rob Cozens, CCW
I'm feeling pressure on several different fronts; so it's unlikely I can
get to it before next weekend. I'll do what I can and let you know.
Rob,
no problem. Take your time.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
At 3:47 PM +0100 on 12/12/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Or those who mind the hassle to get an FTP-client fired up and upload the
files... most of those still aren't user friendly and reliable enough.
Many are getting quite user friendly. Try NetFinder, Anarchie, etc. Look
like the Finder.
[I
Alain: We certainly hope so, but I am not sure that
Anthony is entirely convinced about the relevance
and/or advisability of including the DO command in
FreeScript.
Alain,
I think he's found a way to support it without slowing down the rest of
the language, which should be just fine. After
I've tried to save a few of those I've seen posted (eg: Judy Perry's list
from the HC list).
Rob,
can you make them available, maybe on the web site? Or e-mail them to me
so i can put them up.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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
In a message dated 11/21/99 2:50:31 PM, you wrote:
I recently heard that some company bought the rights to the GIF format from
CompuServe and are going to start charging licensing fees to any web sites or
multimedia projects which use GIF files for the presentation of graphics. Is
that
In a message dated 11/21/99 5:31:50 PM, you wrote:
Unisys has a patent on GIF's compression algorithm, that's why they
started charging $$ for programs that create GIFs.
What's funniest is that IBM also have a patent on the same algorithm. I
wonder why they don't sue unisys... ?
probably
At 2:49 PM -0500 on 11/21/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far they've sued to take every Open-source MP3 encoder off the market.
As far as their concerned, you need their permission to write an MP3
encoder.
I recently heard that some company bought the rights to the GIF format from
CompuServe
At 11:10 PM +0100 on 11/21/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
What's funniest is that IBM also have a patent on the same algorithm. I
wonder why they don't sue unisys... ?
Because they don't make money off of it, and they don't think it's worth
the multimillion-dollar lawsuit?
Or maybe they did --
I recently heard that some company bought the rights to the GIF format from
CompuServe and are going to start charging licensing fees to any web sites or
multimedia projects which use GIF files for the presentation of graphics. Is
that crazy, or what?
Downs,
Unisys has a patent on GIF's
In their original form the documents are either PICT or RSRC.
However since the university is using monstrous NT and linux I added the
suffix .DOC to make sure they would be able to be transported. Just use res
edit to change the file information.
This doesn't work. .DOC is the suffix for Word
Umm... zero-length attachments don't help much.
At 9:37 AM -0700 on 11/16/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
oh god more pretty pictures...
Like I said, if MC wants to use them, feel free. Thank you!
Get free email and a permanent
At 8:25 AM +1000 on 11/16/99, Adrian Sutton wrote:
Alain: Let's move on now to the technical stuff:
The UFP web server is decreasing in value every day.
Enough free webservers out there that if we can't manage to get enough in
donations, we can use one.
Adrian: We could, but it is a last
At 5:30 PM +0100 on 11/13/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
At 11:24 PM +0100 on 11/10/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
But again, since MC and HC are so close,
this will be child's play once the initial conceptual decisions are made.
It won't be a problem.
Hmmm... Sounds like I need to resume my UI paper.
Is the font New York available on winDoze?
I agree, courier is an excellent choice for the font.
We should use fonts which are standard and readily available on both platforms
- helvetica is not unreadable in bold format at 12 points and up.
I suppose palatino is also unavailable... what
DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we'd have to say that you can use the source for any purpose
OUTSIDE of the partnership -- a fork (of organization, not code).
Eric: That is my understanding, but if I am wrong please correct me - that we
do not envision restricting use or sale of
Eric: harrumph...legally speaking...there are no such
things as empty words harumph
Alain: It just seems that way to us non-lawyer types!
Eric: (:-]
Alain: What does this smiley mean?
Eric: Uli, this is in need of optimization. If 20
partners want more than 20 partners, they can have
more --
At 3:37 AM -0700 on 11/10/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
harrumph...legally speaking...there are no such things as empty words harumph
(:-]
Uli, this is in need of optimization. Consider: If 20 partners want more
than 20 partners, they can have more -- they have unamity, they can change
the
At 3:14 AM -0700 on 11/10/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not with metaCard. With metaCard we would (probably)
enter, as a partnership into a contract. In exactly the same way, our end-user
license would be between 'us' (a partnership to be formed) and the end-user.
Would it be possible to write in
It is imprecise. Try to adjust a vectorial drawing by one pixel. Try. And
watch me laugh ... and scream...
Eric,
this depends wholly on the implementation. Claris' products are very
inaccurate because they do constant conversion between units, which causes
things to move around from time to
Alain: Play it safe by ascertaining the type and
format of the graphics that will effectively be used
by our programmers.
Alain, Eric,
the format is not a problem as long as it's a loss-less format. E.g. if
you don't use many gradients, you can use GIF, if you have many gradients
and smooth
Folks, I accidentally added an additional "StarCard" as the last choice of
the second list of names. Ignore it.
Uli, et al:
I thought they were distinct choices: "StarCard" "*Card" ("*"=Star).
Of course the star in English is asterisk, leading to the possible
conotation: "*Card...for the
In explaining the low quality graphics, i expect that the authors of MC are
used to vectorial drawing rather than bitmap. Personally, for anything
detailed bitmaps are better, unless your doing transformations.
Since MC does not support "doMenu" as extensively as HC i do not forsee
working on
At 4:10 PM +0100 on 11/8/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
I guess this sounds like we'll *have to* say "no business purpose". As long
as this can't be misinterpreted to force us not to sell anything OpenCard,
even under a different name.
I think we'd have to say that you can use the source for any
Granted, I work at an art school so i may be a little critical but the
hypercard icons while only BW are actually nicer than the MC icons.
Eric,
honestly spoken, I would have expected a loud yell about MC's interface
from an art school person. I have arts major course and it hurts my eyes.
I thought they were distinct choices: "StarCard" "*Card" ("*"=Star).
Of course the star in English is asterisk, leading to the possible
conotation: "*Card...for the scriptor with only one *." :{`)
...and I'm still writing in PowerCard
Rob,
as you might see on the new list, PowerCard is in
Since MC does not support "doMenu" as extensively as HC i do not forsee
working on the menus till spring.
Look for the "menuPick" message. MC has all its menus in popup-buttons
(you can show them using the "editMenus" property), since other platforms
don't have a global menu bar.
I will
"M. Uli Kusterer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With no business purpose partners and associates are effectively prevented
from entering into contracts in the name of the partnerhip in pursuit of
its
business purpose.
With limited business purpose there is the potential that partner A enters
into
You get around the "no business purpose" (necessary to prevent liability) by
later forming other partnerships among yourselves. That is, by 'forking'.
Naturally, 'spin off' associations would have a profit motivation. How you
wish to do this may be a subject you wish to raise and discuss before i
In a message dated 11/2/99 9:54:34 PM, derobert wrote:
We export to XML and... write a XML viewer for them? Why not just write the
binary viewer -- saves a ton of overhead, the writing of yet another
parser, and the writing of an exporter.
Hark the spirit of OpenSource! If people want an
At 11:39 AM -0800 on 10/31/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
snip
I we were writing a HTML editor, I'd agree: XML is the way to go. But we're
not.
DeRobertis: What advantage does an export to XML
offer?
Alain: See above. But it also occurs to me that, in
some cases, XML might be preferred over
Umm, if anyone can forward me copies of the PERL and GNU (or any other)
licensing agreements, I can use them as models for what I draft.
Yes, lawyers run around drafting documents based on previous documents.
For real. Most contracts are drafted based on other contracts - there are
books on this
This letter is an attemtpt to answer some questions, briefly and succinctly:
As long as you are perfectly clear with any potential author regarding the
fact that this project is not for profit and not for pay i.e. unremunerated
you should not have any problem about implied contracts for payment
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