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CFB Software wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy>> Behalf Of Douglas G. Danforth
>> Sent: Friday, 12 May 2006 2:31 AM
>>
>> I am also willing to commit $100/year to keep BlackBox alive.
>>
>>
>
> What do you have in mind when you say 'keep BlackBox alive'?
>
> Maintain the mailing list? Make sure the website doesn't disappear?
>
> or perhaps more than that:
>
> Keep the code up to date with bug fixes?
>
> or perhaps more than that ????
>
> I suspect that the accounting overheads alone would not make it worthwhile
> to collect a relatively small number of payments of ~ $100. If I'm wrong
> about that, one way to formalise it might be to have a scale of payments to
> join / stay on the mailing list. e.g.
>
> a) Unemployed / student - free
> b) Individual / Personal user - $50 p.a.
> c) Professional individual user - $100 p.a.
> d) Corporate user $500+ p.a.
>
> --
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
>
The bottom line is, I would still like to be using BlackBox/Component
Pascal 5 years from now.
This *may* mean simply making it work on Microsoft's Vista (if and when
it ever happens)
OR
having it run on Apple Computer machines
OR
some other OS that has become the most popular by then.
-Doug Danforth
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