On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:59:15AM +0300, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > * Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020924 11:40]: > > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 11:19, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > > > > > My question is, is there someone who might want to fund it? > > > > Get us a number and we'll see how reasonable it is. Maybe we can have a > > 'Free Qtext!' funraiser or something... :-) > > Well, when I asked him, he said `we can talk'. Basically, I think it's a > matter of negotiation, and to negotiate we need someone who at least > might *possibly* buy the sources (definitely not me...).
Does anyone still buy it? Does the Kibbutz still makes money of it? If not, isn't there a chance they will agree to give it away? The latest version seems to be from 1998. I believe they sold very few licenses since, say, 2000. People rarely buy 4 years old software, even without getting addicted to microsoft. About portability: The demo (you can (could?) download from www.qtext.com) works quite well with recent versions of wine. This might (or might not, I am not an expert) mean porting to libwine might be much easier, even though less portable (e.g. to other Unices), than to QT. I personally think that an existing program, that took, I guess, tens of man-years to develop, and will take maybe a few man-months to port, is worth having. I do not think anyone should start _now_ a new project, given openoffice, koffice and abiword already exist. But QText already exists, and I know some people that really liked some features of it (not me personally - I almost never use any wordprocessor, and prefer lyx when I have to). Another thing it might be useful for is people that still have qtext files. I know (from experience) that some files are very hard to move to word (or text, html, anything), especially using a lot of nikud. Last thing: a google search for "HTML Page - Created by QText" (with the quotes) has 3320 results. This means it was still used recently (also after the export to html feature was added). > > Moshe > > > > > Gilad. > > -- > > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://benyossef.com > > > > "Too many journalists think that C4I really stands for Inteligence, > > Communication, Control, Computers and Consiparcy." > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Moshe Kaminsky > (Home) 08-9471073 > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
