Well said, Wolfgang, applause.
Back from a very nice QL show in the USA, a few words from me: First of all, I'd say: leave the license as it is now else you will never get a result. You have asked for opinions and you have, in my opinion, adjusted the license so that it should suit most people. It is impossible to please anybody anyway, and I think you have worked out a good compromise. Of course, if there's somebody who ONLY wants it to be done his way, then, I believe, there's nothing more you can do. Peter really seems to be wanting to go "his" way, but I feel that this may lead to disadvantages for current and future Q40 and Q60 owners. "Buying out" Q40/Q60 would most likely lead to development splits, and the least signifant route will lose out. Whatever route this may be (Q60 OR QPC) is debateable, but there will be losers either way. We don't want and we don't need any losers. If the already small group of QLers splits up, then this will most likely increase the speed of the QL community dying. The few "commercial" authors left will be faced with even more different versions of the operating system for even less customers. So I think what you're actually deciding here about is an absolutely non-commercial QL scene run by Peter and Richard and maybe a few others and shut down the QL shows and the rest as we know it for years or carry on working together. Travelling to QL shows costs us "commercial" dealers a lot of money, we don't earn anything by doing this. But we like to be present and keep direct contact to other QLers. However, those who want everything for free are hardly seen at QL shows (no offense here, this is respected, I'm just mentioning this as a fact) but I expect that the people who try to keep the scene alive in social terms are respected too. Again, "together" is the key word, isn't it? This not necessarily means everybody has to like each other, but they should at least pull into the same direction - for everybody's benefit. I really would not want to see the Q60 going the way which, for example, CST's Thor went. Jochen
