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From: "Gerome
GUILLEMIN" <>
Date:
Mon Jul 2, 2001 5:23 pm
Subject: Looking into
Rapid-Q
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Hi
all,
This is the last official E-mail from William
Yu.
Please check it entirely !
Gerome GUILLEMIN
Web
site : http://gedd123.free.fr/fbsl.htm
( My FREE Basic Script Language )
For my personal touch,
William is a great guy and has left us a good
compiler ( that had
given me ideas to build mine ;) )
---- Last William's
Mail to the group ---- ( Archived from this group
)
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Hi,
I have remained silent through all
of this, and I apologize for
leaving people in the dark about the
current situation. I had a letter
written up a few weeks ago, but
I never posted. To be quite honest I
didn't know what to say. For
one thing, and I hope people truely believe
this but, all the
time I've spent on Rapid-Q was one of the most
enjoyable
experiences in my life because of the great people on
the mailing list. I
know how it looks now, like I've double
crossed everyone here who's helped
me along the way, but I did
not go into this demanding anything, and I
hope there's no one
here who feels that they demand something now. I
created Rapid-Q
to help people get started on Windows programming, and I
believe
that I have, but I'm not going to make any apologies for
my
decision. I know this situation has upset a lot of people, but
please
take away the blame on Geoff and put it where it really
belongs, me. It's
not like I didn't know what I was getting
myself into, because I did.
I can understand the frustration
in not open sourcing Rapid-Q in the
first place, and I do feel
like I let people down because of it, but would
it have cost me
my job here, perhaps. I don't know how many here have
worked on a
project for over a year to just let it go public. Just ask
Max
Reason to open source XBasic when he first created it, or
Carl Gundel for
that matter. No one is obligated to do anything.
If this is a character
flaw on my part, then you must make your
own assumptions, are we all bad
because we don't open source our
creations? Rapid-Q, as it stands today,
is still fully useable
without royalties. No one here, or anywhere else,
can tell you
otherwise, Rapid-Q is still free for public consumption,
it's
just that it will no longer be maintained as Rapid-Q. It may
someday
manifest as REALbasic to some degree.
The facts
are, I could have made more money working at McDonalds than
the
time spent on Rapid-Q and what Geoff has offered me to stop working
on
it. So if you think I'm selling out, so be it. I'm not
perfect, we all
have tough decisions to make, I'm thinking about
my future right now, so
if this seems selfish of me, then I can't
help you there either. We all
want to feel like we're doing the
right thing, I can't tell you that I am,
I can only ask for your
forgiveness for my mistakes, and if you feel this
is one of them,
then you'll know that I'll be paying for it sooner
or
later.
I hope this letter didn't sound too formal, I
hope nothing like this
ever happens again either, to me or anyone
else. I share in your pain, it
hasn't been easy to walk away from
people such as Gerome GUILLEMIN, Steven E,
Chris
B, Erlend,
Thomas S, Jordi, Pavel, Bryn, Andrew G, and all those
who've
offered their support and constructive criticism. They're
all great people
and I'm sure you'll all do great things. Thank
you for believing in
Rapid-Q and for your countless time and
energy devoted to helping it
succeed, I just hope this experience
doesn't stop you from believing in
projects like this. I know
we've all learned something from this whole
situation.
I'm
sorry it has come to this, I really feel bad for not
saying
something sooner, but I hope that this message at least
clarifies some
things, good or bad, I'm sure you'll let me know.
You're all free to
speak up, I'm glad most of you have, and the
mailing list will not be
terminated unless everyone here leaves.
The Rapid-Q page will still
remain, but it may be moved in the
future, you will all know if or when it
does. I still have yet to
settle in, as I am writing this up in my hotel
room, but
hopefully we can all move on from this and be better off for
it.
Thanks for your attention and support,
William
Yu
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rapidq/post?postID=xiJmY-EPgYsvBFxCegiaaKnJ-PYRiwscqmIuVmtcfH39e35yVNW7kUvve7O-UxtSPU3nEkrR
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>
Hello,
> (I'd posted this to the Rapid-Q ezBorad forum but
since I've just
> found this group and belive this one to be
more active, I'll post
> here too.)
> I've just
discovered Rapid-Q and would like to know why people use
>
this language. That is, there are so many and I'm just wondering
why
> anyone would choose this one over any other.
>
On this page:
> barney.gonzaga.edu/~jgartin/rapidq.htm
>
It says that Rapid-Q is no longer supported. Is that
true?
> Regarding the last statement, after some more
research I've found
> that this is true. Has anyone tried
contacting Mr. Yu and asking him
> for the source code? This
would probably be great for Open Source.
> Thank you for
your time in answering.
> Sincerly,
>
vbMark
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