RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread Darren Branagh
Hi Stuart, First of all welcome to the group - I hope you choose to stay. You'll find we're a friendly bunch, eager to help, and the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Do you intend to use your QL more often now or are you just going to tinker for curiosity value? The DP QL

Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
First of all welcome to the group - I hope you choose to stay. You'll find we're a friendly bunch, eager to help, and the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Do you intend to use your QL more often now or are you just going to tinker for curiosity value? The DP QL Collection

Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread John Hall
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Stuart - I could probably get a free WANTED ad into QL Today magazine for you (if publisher Jochen Merz agrees and space permits) to see if anyone wishes to sell their copy of the DP bundle. Let me know if you'd like to try this. Of course, anyone who did sell or

RE: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread Darren Branagh
This is one of the many things that bugs the hell out of me. I wish there was a statute of limitations or similar on software, whereby after x years the stuff became free. I'm sure freddy would agree to releasing it as freeware, or certainly for a giveaway price. I mean, what real use is a piece

Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread Derek Stewart
The DP package was not really worth the money... But I bought to support the QL scene. There are much better software around which is free. In fact most of the QL software that I bought is now free, I wonder if I have wasted money. Derek Darren Branagh wrote: This is one of the many things

[ql-users] Software behaving badly

2005-05-17 Thread Malcolm Cadman
I think it is time that we had a debate about what software we want for the original QL specification OS and its descendants, and what we want for the SMSQ OS successor and even beyond ... There seems to be only 2 licence types of software for the QL - software the costs and software that is

Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Darren Branagh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: RE: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software This is one of the many things that bugs the hell out of me. I wish there was a statute of limitations or similar on software,

Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Tue, 17 May 2005 17:17:20 -0400, gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget Freddy V. may have sold the software, but that does not mean he is the copyright holder. I have said this many times before on this list. There are doubts about the copyright position of several of the

Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Tue, 17 May 2005 10:43:50 -0400, Darren Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can pick up a copy of PC World, Computer Shopper, PC Pro or any other PC Magazine and find a pile of software (often once costing hundreds of pounds) stuck to the front cover for the 4.99 cover price, and much of