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skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
> The point is, if OuS were serious about winning new customers for the
> product, they would be doing such things left and right. They could
> use this community to leverage their sales. They would follow up on
> many threads and hints in this mailing list.
On this point and several other versions Wojtek has made I would like to
add an observation. Bear with me.
Some years ago, I worked for a small company of 12 souls whose main
activities were creating font cartriges for Hewlett-Packard printers.
The founder and president of the company had a masters degree from MIT
of which he was very proud. When I mentioned that another company made
a font cartrige that handled WordPerfect documents (the project to which
I had been assigned) he responded
"I'm not afraid of a little competition"!
I mention this because when I asked OuS several years ago why they did
not sell BlackBox as a development environment for Component Pascal in
the same way that Microsoft sells Visual C++ they responded (paraphrase)
"We can't compete in that market".
My thoughts then were: How big do you want to be?
If you are trying to be a Microsoft then I would agree with OuS. If,
however, you are simply trying to keep bread on the table for 5 people
then I would be wildly happy to have 1/1000 (0.1%) of the market that
Microsoft has!
Why be afraid of a little competition?
-Doug
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