Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-11 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-09 14:48, Marcel Kilgus escribió / skribis / wrote : Marcos Cruz wrote: 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.

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-09 Thread Marcos Cruz
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

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcos Cruz wrote: 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

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-09 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-08 15:43, Malcolm Lear escribió / skribis / wrote : I really can't believe we are still stuck with this out of date ridiculous licence that's killing any chance of a future for SMSQ/E. In my opinion, that's the main point we must be conscius of: There's no future this way.

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-09 Thread Ralf Reköndt
From: Marcos Cruz - Beside my personal use, I see no motivation for writing software for a - commercial system (SMSQ/E) that people actually and practically cannot use. - There are too many free alternatives out there... I think, the problem is, that a few very good programmers have given us

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-08 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-07 10:48, Daniele Terdina escribió / skribis / wrote : You can use SMSQ/E with Q-emuLator, I know, but you have to purchase it (the Gold Card version). Am I right? That's what I meant. Thanks to the QLPAK format, currently Q-emuLator is more suitable than QPC2 for distributing

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-08 Thread Lee Privett
If the License is too restrictive and doesn't carry with today's fast paced information age, then what is there stopping people to go back to the current license holder and ask it it could be changed? On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Marcos Cruz q...@programandala.net wrote: En/Je/On 2011-12-07

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-08 Thread Malcolm Lear
Where's the like button :-) . I really can't believe we are still stuck with this out of date ridiculous licence that's killing any chance of a future for SMSQ/E. Surely it can be renegotiated? On 08/12/2011 13:19, Marcos Cruz wrote: En/Je/On 2011-12-07 10:48, Daniele Terdina escribió /

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-08 Thread pjwitte
On 08/12/2011 16:43, Malcolm Lear wrote: Where's the like button :-) . I really can't believe we are still stuck with this out of date ridiculous licence that's killing any chance of a future for SMSQ/E. Surely it can be renegotiated? On 08/12/2011 13:19, Marcos Cruz wrote: En/Je/On

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-07 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-05 17:53, George Gwilt escribió / skribis / wrote : If QPC2 were freely available at no cost the difficulties of the demo version would, of course, disappear. A complete freely available QPC2 (even if it will remain propietary software) would (partly) solve the problem to

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
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

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-07 Thread Daniele Terdina
Something similar would happen with a free unlimited version of Q-emuLator (and the QLPAK format is perfect for that), but SBASIC could not be used, because of SMSQ/E. You can use SMSQ/E with Q-emuLator, but even in a hypothetical world where a free Q-emuLator runtime existed, there would be

[Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-05 Thread Geoff Wicks
George Gwilt is having problems with his emails to this group. They appear to be disappearing in cyberspace. I promised him I would forward this on his behalf: From: gdgqler Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:20 PM To: Geoff Wicks Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-05 Thread Dilwyn Jones
If QPC2 were freely available at no cost the difficulties of the demo version would, of course, disappear. How could a free version of QPC2 be possible? 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

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-05 Thread QL2K
-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2? If QPC2 were freely available at no cost the difficulties of the demo version would, of course, disappear. How could a free version of QPC2 be possible? I would guess that not many copies, if any, of QPC2 will be sold in the future. That being so