Hello ELKS list: I recently contacted Symantec, who to my surprise had purchased Quarterdeck recently, and inquired about the possibility of releasing source code to DesqView X, seeing as how it has been scrapped as a product and has no further commercial value to the company. My initial response was unfavorable, but I have no intentions of following up on it unless there is interest in it. I have attached the message I received below. Perhaps if they realize there is a little interest in the product still they may be willing to work something out. Meanwhile, I am one of the lucky few who owns DesqView X. Rather, a member of my family owns it, and although I'd like to keep it to play with it some, if he can sell it and make money from it he'd like to do it. It's version 1.1 and includes the original disks and manuals. He purchased it used a few years back, so it's not in mint condition if you want a collector's set but there's nothing missing as far as I can see. Let me know if you are interested, and we'll see if we can work something out for a price, etc. Looking forward to running ELKS with a mini-Web server :) -- Michael Hamblin http://www.utdallas.edu/~michaelh/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ductape.net/ UTD Linux User Group Engineering and Computer Science Support x2997 Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:00:13 -0700 From: Custserv13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Broken Link (Please include the URL of the problem and refer Hello Michael, Thank you for your message. Even though Desqview has been discontinued, we still own the rights to the source code of the product. Unfortunately we cannot send the code to you for this product. Symantec as a rule does not distribute any code for our products once they have been discontinued or sunseted. Best regards, Travis Butler Symantec Online Customer Service
