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From: "Roy Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code
snip (having difficulty with my browser -it seems random (from 1 email to
the next) whether or not it puts the > at the beginning of lines that
pre-existed.)
you wrote:
I cannot see any increase in the user base as a result of the current
batch of free emulators and I can see no reason that will change by
magic if SMSQ/E is written for UQLX.
response
QDOS is far too limited to attract new users. SMSQ/E probably is too at the
moment, but how would I know, I haven't been able to try it out!
You wrote:
So you have used UQLX for a long time but will give up if you cannot
have SMSQ/E ? Is this really what you are saying here ?
response
I have some applications that I wrote in SuperBasic on a QL. They still get
used on occasion, under emulation these days. If I had decent graphics,
internet connection and browser, file system, it would still platform of
choice. However it doesn't and so I use it less and less.
You wrote:
OK I may have overstepped myself a bit here. Jochen and I discussed the
concepts of adding commercial bits to SMSQ/E and, although I was at
first very much in its favour, he pointed out to me that it would be
unworkable in practice. The costs would spiral out of control (for the
user - not for the reseller) and the administration would be a
nightmare. We did decide that all commercial developments would have to
be in the form of add-ons and that any development that had to go into
the core of SMSQ/E would have to be free and go into the open version. I
did think that this has been put to Wolfgang but it obviously had not. I
apologise if I have mislead you. As I said I have no actual control over
how the licence is.
response:
So if you and Jochen agree, can you, Wolfgang? If so, could you please let
everyone know by inserting something in the spirit of the clauses that you I
was suggesting?
Jeremy
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