[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!) I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an upgrade to Text 87 and suggested that he could produce

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-19 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 at 22:45:55, Roy wood wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Qliberator was another story but Ian Stewart, who was my only contact, had only a small part in writing it. The other author, whose name escapes me, Adrian Soundy had long since disappeared and the sources were not

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-18 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!) Does this fall into the parameters of what you were looking for Geoff - the possibility of paying someone to extend the SDUMP system. Of course, a small(ish

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-18 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Does this fall into the parameters of what you were looking for Geoff - the possibility of paying someone to extend the SDUMP system. Of course, a small(ish) job, but one that could be incoporated into a lot of programs. Perhaps we should start thinking of what sort of routines we would

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to spend on QL development. How should they spend this money? In fact Quanta would have two possible ways of financially stimulating QL development. Major projects (SGC successor?) could be financed out of the capital. These

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have said that Quanta is heading towards a £1000 a year structural profit. I am also interested in how much Quanta has in realisable assets. The reason I ask, is that as has been pointed out, the pond is now a puddle

Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
I haven't answered on this thread until now mainly because (in the first attempt...) I wasn't sure whether that kind of money would conceivably around in this matter. Now that Geoff has given more details, here's my 2 cents' worth. I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!) SNIP I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for software would be a good idea. The reason is that it is, in my mind, too much and too little

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-16 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:22:18 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't answered on this thread until now mainly because (in the first attempt...) I wasn't sure whether that kind of money would conceivably around in this matter. Now that Geoff has given more details, here's my 2

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeremy Taffel
: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:52 PM Subject: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!) - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!) SNIP I don't

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Geoff Wicks wrote: This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to spend on QL development. How should they spend this money? On march, 8th, Laurence Reeves answered:: 1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;) That seems like a lot of cash for what is a pretty

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-14 Thread Dent
gwicks wrote: snip This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to spend on QL development. How should they spend this money? snip Remember your subscription is your money, not Quanta's. How would you like them to spend it on your behalf? Geoff Wicks. Hi Take a

Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-14 Thread Arnould Nazarian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: I was thinking on the subject of what next for the QL. I think we really need something that acts like a web browser. This means the display of text and graphics in the same viewer. There was an attempt a few years back at writing a web browser for the QL (from

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-14 Thread P Witte
Geoff Wicks writes: Remember your subscription is your money, not Quanta's. How would you like them to spend it on your behalf? In a way, hardware development is more deserving as hw developers have real outlays apart from spare time, ie their profit can go negative rather than just zero. But

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-14 Thread Lau
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote: Geoff Wicks wrote: This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to spend on QL development. How should they spend this money? On march, 8th, Laurence Reeves answered:: 1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;) That seems like a lot of cash

[ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-13 Thread gwicks
Thanks to all the people who have replied to this thread. Nice to know I can still stir things up! Just a pity that the subject was hijacked into a discussion on printers although there were one or two other good suggestions. Thus a 2nd attempt to get answers. Let me be more specific why I

Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-13 Thread swensont
I was thinking on the subject of what next for the QL. I think we really need something that acts like a web browser. This means the display of text and graphics in the same viewer. There was an attempt a few years back at writing a web browser for the QL (from Italy I think), but it really