- Supporting BlackBox

From: Treutwein Bernhard <"Treutwein>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:05:08 +0200

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good idea, I could (currently) afford half of that,
but I would be willing to spend it ...

regards

--
	Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
	Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Behalf Of Reinhard Bürger
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:59 AM
> To: BlackBox Mailing List
> 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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