>> Quanta have never contributed to the development of SMSQ/E > >If you say so, OK, I seem to remember a few years ago a big >conflab about using the Quanta funds to pay for a new OS(SMSQ?) >On the other points, as I say you have always had my support, as >have the other traders past and present., and my sympathys. It has been suggested as a good use of Quanta's money but each time it was turned down. I last raised the issue at the QL 2000 meeting at which I suggested that Quanta bought the rights to distribute the non colour version of SMSQ/E for free. A similar argument about open code ensued. I just thought it would be good to get a lot of people using the same O/S since that would make things uniform and make it easier for programmers. As I said it was turned down. > >One point you make is that the QL is now just a hobby machine, >why then all this fuss over a license for something people just >want to play with.? The point is, as I have said several times before, that it is in everyone's interest that the O/S be as stable and reliable a platform as we can make it. Without the restrictions on the distributions of non approved code no-one can rely on anything working as it should. This would lead to the few commercial programmers abandoning the system and more customer dissatisfaction. When a program does not work people often blame the program and not necessary the patched, hacked and messed about O/S they are running it on. TT asked for a degree of protection to his copyright, I believe, so a licence of sorts had to be arranged and it all spread from there.
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