Re: Funding GNUstep development

[Tim Bissell]

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
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> 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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Tim
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