"Various forms of this e-mail" . . .

[Mathewson]

Yes, they do . .. 

I posted this 'variant' at the behest of Dr Marielle Lange
who felt that my previous version was a bit too 'stroppy'
and that this variant would make it clear that I had no
'beef' with commercial software as such.

By the way: I have never had a RR licence: the firm
(Articulate Music, based in St Andrews, Scotland) bought me
Manuals for RR1.1; I was paid a small sum as an advance on
my work; never received a licence (which my employer
undertook to buy) and have never received any royalties.

Unfortunately, I am "one stupid prawn" insofar as I
believed, in the good, old Scots fashion, that a man's word
is his bond, and that I would have had both a licence and
some 'siller' for my labours. Silly Richmond!

I would be rather happy to purchase a licence if I could
find/earn/beg/steal (well, not the last) the money to pay
for it. I do believe that RR has 'it' rather more than most
of the RADs at present on the market.

I have recently set up a firm in Bulgaria (where I stay)
and am working on a number of educational projects, which,
if they come to fruition, should let me afford a RR
licence.

The POINT (to 'grind on' yet again) is that I believe that
a demo/limited/free version (call it what you will)
stimulates various forms of activity which benefits RR in
some ways just as much as licence money.

I am not an unreconstructed Stallmanite insofar as I don't
want pie-in-the-sky all the time. After all up until RR
2.0.1 the restricted 'demo' was restricted - and the
novelty of circumventing the restrictions through thousands
of linked fields wears off pretty quickly!  I do believe in
putting something back in the pot - I am sure that you will
recall that for some 2 years the user-contrib. list of RR
was packed with various contribs of mine - that was my way
of putting back, in lieu of a licence. My wife gives
English lesoons to a girl next-door; her family have not a
pair of brass farthings to rub together; but her Mum helps
my older son with his Bulgarian literature - not
startlingly original!

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On a much more interesting (and less 'RANTY') note: please
download my Multiple Choice Question widget via my website
and play with it.

Regards, Richmond

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