I still hold my opinion, that unless your business with
the docs was a total loss, you should share your docs for
free or some *much more realistic amount*, and we can
continue to build it together for the benefit of all
xHarbour and Harbour users.
Sorry, Viktor, I don't understand that you can ask us to just "give
away" an investment of + $38.000 with a loss of + $31.000. WHY
should we do that?
Because this way it simply won't work in practice.
Ron Pinkas also made massive contributions to [x]Harbour, but as a
partner in xHarbour.com he ALSO pays for xHDN. What is the
difference between him and you? I mean, on the subject of "I worked
hard for Harbour, so I don't need to pay"?
Well, my goal wasn't to measure my own work vs. others',
especially not Ron's whom I haven't worked with since at
least 6-7 years.
For sure for him the situation was a whole lot different
than for me, given that he have had realized actual
income from this project when investing in xHDN, and
ever since. So it was an investment. This isn't bad at
all, but it cannot be compared to me spending my own
money earned from other projects without even the prospect
of a future return of this money spent. For me personally
it'd be money burnt without actual benefit.
It's not about me though. It's about all Harbour users'
needs and the acceptance of this language in the wider
audience to keep it alive, and even gather new users.
To reach these goals, a documentation is most probably
a good thing to have. This is also good for you as
a company because more users mean more potential income,
good for every other users, since the chance the product
will stay is higher and they can even use it more efficiently.
Such amount of money is unlikely to come from *one*
Harbour contributor / user though. Such amount of money
could only come from *many* contributors / users, or
from *an investor*. Unless I'm missing some opportunity
somewhere.
This list probably doesn't have too many investors
subscribed :) so we can only help in finding more
contributors / users to compensate you with the docs,
plus offer volunteer work to enhance the documentation,
this way effort would be merged, which is good.
The other option for docs, is to start a separate effort
(like gathering money on our own PayPal account and get
a deal with Hannes or someone else), but this wouldn't
be the best option for whole Harbour/xbb community.
Or maybe others have more / better suggestions.
Again, I DO respect all your hard work. I just try to answer your
questions.
Thank you Patrick.
[ we should probably continue in the other subthread,
but wanted to give answer to these questions also. ]
Brgds,
Viktor
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