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> From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Lee Hiers
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 16:06
> To: trlog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TRLog] Renaissance?
>
>
>
> On 2 Jan 2002, at 15:00, LogWindows@aol.com wrote:
>
> > If you think there is a market, put your money where your mouth is.
> > It'll cost between $100,000 - $200,000 to do it right (i.e. all
> > features, docs, etc). It'll take 9-12 months to do and you need a good
> > Windows coder, device driver coder, documentation writer and QA person
> > just to get to the beta cycle.
>
> Or someone with the dedication and skills of Tree, who would
> undertake a project like this out of his desire to have something
> that no-one would (or could) produce commercially. Something to fit
> his ways of operating...the ways of a world-class, champion operator.
> Something that other people may discover is useful after the fact.
> Not as a money-making venture.
>
> It takes someone who has paid the dues and invested sweat-equity, not
> someone who thinks they can throw money at a project and have it
> magically do what needs to be done and that people will beat a path
> to buy it...or if they don't, that it isn't worth doing.
>
> When Tree wrote the program, he wrote it for himself. There was no
> known market for the program at that time. But gradually word leaked
> out and he decided to start selling it to others. The revenue
> generated vs. the amount of time he has spent working on TR would
> result in a pitiful hourly rate I'm sure. But Tree does this as a
> labor of love, and it's the only way a niche product such as this can
> exist with such a limited user base.
>
> > If you want to fund it and share a portion of the royalties for your
> > funding, let me know.
>
> The bottom line isn't always the bottom line...some folks never
> understand that.
>
> "Progress" will someday make the TR program we know and love obsolete
> (some say it already has)...if Tree decides that he needs a Windows
> logger, I'm sure he could invest the time and produce one that does
> what he needs...and the cycle may start over. Or, others with
> similar motivation may step in to fill the void. I've heard WriteLog
> is a decent Windows contest logger, but I haven't looked at it in
> years. Someday I may have to consider it. But in the meantime, I'm
> satisfied with old-fashioned DOS and TR. And as long as I've got
> computer hardware that will run it and allow me to operate as I can
> now, I'll never have any need to "upgrade" to the Windows environment.
>
But one day if nobody takes over for Tree then the program will die. What
happens then?
I doubt you will find another to take on the huge task that Tree is doing.
It is a never ending story.
> Thanks again, Tree.
>
> 73 de Lee
>
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> Lee Hiers, AA4GA
> Cornelia, GA
>
> lee@dixieliner.com
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