Re: Funding GNUstep development

[Gerold Rupprecht]

Dear Tim,

I just checked out the website and your wish has come true. 

Flexisheet is now open source at the following link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexisheet/

It is written in objective-c with a BSD license.

Sincerely,
-- 
Gerold Rupprecht
10, rue Louis-Curval
CH-1206 Geneva
Switzerland


On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:23, Tim Bissell wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 22:13, Stefanos Kiakas wrote:
> > Hello ,
> >
> >
> > One other thing you might want to look into. Talking
> > to IBM to release the Improv source code. Improv is
> > much better than Quantrix.
> >
> > Does anybody know anyone who can make such a decision
> > at IBM/Lotus?
>
> As far as I recall Improv was written in a mixture of Pascal and
> Objective-C, against a very early NS release; so its code will be in an
> even worse state than Quantrix.  I've toyed with the idea of rewriting
> Quantrix, but three young kids get in the way all the time.  At home I
> use Flexisheet (www.materialarts.de) for my simple budgeting needs;
> I've emailed the author about open-sourcing it, but have not had any
> response ...
>
> > stef
> >
> > ------- Forwarded Message
> >
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FCrkan_Seng=FCn?= <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>
> > Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:22:25 +0100
> > Subject: Funding GNUstep development
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I know from Gregory Casamento and friends of him he could
> > write a text processing software like OpenWrite [1] within
> > one to three months, which'd require fixing bugs in GNUstep
> > and paying like $4000/month.
> >
> > They also could write some spreadsheet calculator like
> > Quantrix [2]. Really a pity that SUN.com doesn't release
> > anything from the Lighthouse Design Applications [4] they have.
> >
> > The same could be done for the icon drawing [3].
> >
> > What about asking the following foundation for funding of these
> > projects which would take GNUstep steps ahead by adding
> > killer software AND fixing stuff in the frameworks?
> >
> > http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/index.php?
> > option=content&task=blogsection&id=26&Itemid=42
> >
> > Yours,
> > Gurkan
> >
> > [1] http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/OpenWrite.gif
> > [2] http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/Quantrix.gif
> > [3] http://www.gnustep.org/newiconcampaign/
> > [4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/32963.html
> >     http://www.petitiononline.com/laafs/petition.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> regards,
>
> Tim