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.
Thanks again, Tree.
73 de Lee
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Cornelia, GA
lee@dixieliner.com
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