En/Je/On 2011-12-07 16:28, Marcel Kilgus escribió / skribis / wrote : > Geoff Wicks wrote: > > I would guess that not many copies, if any, of QPC2 will be sold in > > the future. That being so, it might be worth while offering Marcel a > > sum of money in place of these. This could be attractive to Marcel > > if he reckoned that it was worth more than he would get from the > > future sales. It would, I suggest, be of interest to the present > > body of QLers in that it may well attract new users and give the QL > > a new lease of life.
> creating a special "runtime" version of QPC is > currently beyond my free time budget. I'm open to George's proposal > however, it sounds pretty reasonable to me. > I'm pretty sure there won't be any more paid upgrades. I see a contradiction here, Marcel: George's proposal sounds reasonable to me too, but you say probably there won't be any more paid upgrades, what means the actual end of QPC2's commercial life. If there's no comercial life left for QPC2, then I think there's no reason for a compensation. Besides, I have some questions, just to focus the discussion a bit more: 1) Why do you think there won't be any more paid upgrades? You cannot (or don't want, what is understable) to dedicate more time to QPC2? Or do you think no (new) users will be interested any more? 2) If there won't be any more paid upgrades, would you publish QPC2 with a free software licence? That's not uncommon when a propietary program reaches the end of its commercial life. That would preserve QPC for the future because new people would be able to continue your work. (I know the SMSQE/E's license is a limitation; but let's suppose it will became true free software). 3) If the answer to 2) is negative, would you publish at least a gratis unlimited version of QPC2? (Again, it seems the SMSQE/E's license is a limitation here). [Note for people not acquainted with free software: to avoid misunderstandings, I use "free" in the sense of "free speech", not "free beer"; for "free beer" I use "without charge" or "gratis" instead. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software] Marcos _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
