Hello Viktor,

> To me it seems strange to push most of the costs of this
> business investment to "Harbour community", considering that
> it created sales, income and profit for your company
> along the years. I don't know, just guess that it wasn't
> a totally dead investment, which created a full $38800 loss
> for you. I hope not.

We sell xHarbour Language Reference Guide at a price of $48.00 ($59.00 with
PDF). Total net sales for all xHarbour Language Reference Guide's combined
over all years is USD $7,550.00. So, our total net loss on xHDN is
$31,250.00

We shouldn't forget that lots of developers were and are
> working on Harbour for free, which again creates sales,
> income and profit for your company.

Sorry, how do you connect Harbour to sales for xHarbour.com?

This isn't appearing
> as a figure anywhere, but is probably a much higher amount
> than the cost of this documentation, even if you take
> a fraction of this figure, it's still a considerable
> contribution for the benefit (in actual $) of your company.

Sorry, I don't agree.

[ Hey Viktor, please, also try to answer MY questions. I see you are
replying my posts with a brand new post, but you don't answer my questions
on my previous post. Please try to do as me, answer posts INLINE, not start
a new post. I can't find answer to my questions this way. Thanks!  ;-) ]

Also I just can guess, that you meant Harbour+xHarbour
> community, otherwise I even less understand the offer.
> From you e-mail it wasn't clear that you want a joined
> doc effort afterwards, or just pass a copy to the free
> Harbour Project (and its free users) for that amount.

I don't WANT or demand anything ;-)
I just provide you with ideas and suggestions and if you guys like it and
want to participate in it, you are welcome. But yes, I'd like this to be a
joint Harbour/xHarbour venture.

I still hold my opinion, that unless your business with
> the docs was a total loss, you should share your docs for
> free or some *much more realistic amount*, and we can
> continue to build it together for the benefit of all
> xHarbour and Harbour users.

Sorry, Viktor, I don't understand that you can ask us to just "give away" an
investment of + $38.000 with a loss of + $31.000. WHY should we do that?

Patrick
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