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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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