How do you know it was finances? Usually if a company is deliberately shutting down, they'll make some posting on their site. TP didn't make any announcement. The last update appears to have been in Feb 2018. Then in December 2019 the site is missing. Then in 2020 it's taken over by a MJ company, which sadly gets more hits (pun!) than the original TP.
The basic code had been written in 1995. The improvements were few and far between. I doubt there were many expenses other than the web-site. If you were deliberately shutting down, you could sell the business to someone else. Or open source it. This is what happened with Blender (graphics software). It started off as for-pay, but then opened up the source code to the community where it has flourished. I imagine a good deal of software would still work if I needed it or still had it. Windows has been pretty backward compatible since Win 95. Thanks! On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 5:12:21 AM UTC-7, Birthe C wrote: > > Mark S and TT, > > But the explanation for stopping treepad was finances. > Years of deficit will end closing projects. > > Hm, dangers of single-owner propriety software - I do understand what you > mean, But other projects with lots of cooperation end up not getting on, > quarrels and end of project. > > How much of the software you have used during the same 25 years, are you > still able to use. > > We are the lucky ones, we have Tiddlywiki, let's keep it that way. > > Birthe > > > On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 4:48:01 AM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >> >> >> So, it had a long run, I suppose. It does illustrate the dangers of >> single-owner proprietary software. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5bcc5aa8-460d-45ee-a6db-72c4efd66999o%40googlegroups.com.
