ADS vs PG

[SlavkoDam]

Hi Joe, Tom.

Thanks for your understanding, I appreciate that, you are great. Really, I am not frustrated or disappointed. I realized from our conversation, that Alaska's stuff don't understand what I am doing, and why. But, I don't care and keep on with that.

So, what Tom asked me recently, this is my mission: to extend the basic capabilities of Xbase++ as best I can, and I am succeeding in that. And I know its worth of it, I use my tools in my applications with great improvement for them.

[bwolfsohn]

Popping out of lurkdom here... Sold my company (CUS) in 2019 and have been retired since then.. I'm enjoying the discussion, and want to add a little perspective from "outside the room".

Over the years, Alaska has financially struggled a number of times. I think the policy of keeping everything in-house was Stephan feeling this was the best way for Alaska to survive at those times. Add that to (from my perspective) his natural inclination to not open up the software and go it alone led to Alaska surviving on a short-term (generational) basis, but in the long-term, it has and will keep Alaska from getting any higher up the mountain. Eventually, they will fall off the steep slope as many others. even those "better products that just made a single misstep and faded away. (1-2-3, wordperfect.)

On another subject, if you have been in the business for awhile, I'd recommend the TV series "Halt and Catch Fire". It's a docudrama based on the hectic first years of the microcomputer. It covered major moments in hardware when "I Was There", in the room watching what ended up on the TV screen... A great watch for at least the first couple of seasons.

I hope you are all as healthy as age permits... Best regards to everyone...

P.S. lots of old software stuff still layiing around in NOrth Florida if anyone wants it..

[unixkd]

Hi Brian

Thanks for your contributions.

I think Alaska should communicate better to this community. In my own thinking Alaska should explore the option of turning the project to open source kind of.

They need to do something before it is too late.

Joe