Hello Viktor, > I was happy to see you jumping to the thread, but when I saw > the 80% figure and that it should be paid to xhb project, I got > a little bit surprised. Oops, why is that? I mean, its the same a saying, "hey guys, we, xHarbour.com will sponsor 20% of the cost for writing the docs". No?
> I would think it would be much more fair for the authors and > for our users to compensate *Hannes* with this or the original > amount (which is only extra 20%) for a documentation specifically > crafted for Harbour. I'm sorry I don't understand. What I wanted to says is exactly that. Compensate 80% of what we paid Hannes to do the Job. There is no financial gain here for xHarbour.com. In this construction, xHarbour.com still pays 20% of the total amount, remember? ;-) > In case we'd be using this doc as a base, > we'd most probably need his help to make corrections and > additions anyway. For solely passing the doc rights to Harbour > community this figure is way too high. I can't decide on that. I can just tell you guys what it the cost was for US to write the docs. > So my personal opinion is that this construct in this way > is nothing more than getting (an IMO non-fair share amount > of) money by xhb from Harbour developers / users. Sorry, I don't understand why you think this. Can you clarify? > Moreover we'd be paying for the "middleman", not the author, > which means this money would not be spend on any actual > documentation writing, just (almost fully) compensate for a > business investment. Not correct. You guys compensate exact what we paid Hannes, that is, 80% of it in this proposal. > Probably a zero amount to share rights would be a generous > amount to offer for the whole xhb/Harbour community then > sharing extra expenses to get the documentation updated to > the development of latest years. This way it could be also > guaranteed that the docs would be usable for both products, > all differences documented properly. Viktor, please, read this again. "zero amount to share rights" ;-))) So, you ask us to GIVE away our investment to Harbour?? Remember we invested +$38,000.00 USD in this documentation project. > My 2 cents. Thank you for your personal view Victor ;-) Patrick _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
