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In my opinion, our firsts steps are :
How many we are ?
How many use BB at industry ?
How many use BB at not profit projects and accept support BB ?
We use BB at industry; basicaly as internal tool, our customers "love" our
tools but...
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinhard Bürger" <burgwolf{([at]})nowhere.xy
To: "BlackBox Mailing List" <blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:59 AM
Subject: [BlackBox] - [BlackBox] Supporting BlackBox
> Hello All,
>
> why did it take so many years to find that BlackBox cannot survive
> without funding by its adepts?
> I am willing to subscribe 100 Euros/year to a project that simply is
> "keep BlackBox alive on the current MS Windows platform".
> Who else is?
>
> Regards
> Reinhard Bürger
>
>
>
> Douglas G. Danforth schrieb:
> > Maksimiuk Darek wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >> Maybe our small community can support some of the BlackBox
> >> activities at Oberon Microsystem by using a magic
> >> button with "PayPal" text in it? If, of course, OM can put such a
> >> visual gadget on their web page.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Darek
> >>
> > I actually agree with this sentiment. Oberon and its descendant
> > BlackBox/Component Pascal has (in my opinion) failed in marketing its
> > products. Previously I was informed by OuS that it would talk about
> > $100,000 to support a port of BlackBox to Unix. I have wondered over
> > the years whether a fund could have been created such that donations
> > into it would eventually meet that goal (and any other worthwhile goal).
> >
> > When it comes to politics here in the US of A it is amazing to see how
> > quickly $100K, $300K, or $500K can be raised. But then the community
> > to which the funds are requested is on the order of 1 million souls.
> > But surely we could at least try and emulate the process?
> >
> > I'm willing to kick in some funds if the project is well stated and
> > well organized.
> >
> > -Doug Danforth
> >
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> >
>
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