[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 pro

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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 avai

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2004-03-18 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I think if QLiberator and Text87 were achievable, I suspect Roy Wood and/or Jochen Merz would have secured them by now. This is indeed true. I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an upgrade to Text 87 and suggested

[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 wo

[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 syste

[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 pud

[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. T

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

2004-03-16 Thread Jeremy Taffel
From: "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]

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

2004-03-16 Thread "Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος)"
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

[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 l

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] 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.

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

2004-03-14 Thread Dent
gwicks 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? > 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 look

[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 trivi