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I love the way that Fred drops these major revelations in as casual side remarks.

Yeah, he he...

Fred wrote: I will have much more time to spend on PB starting on january (leaving my fulltime job to work at fully on PB).

8O
Congratulation
Hope all goes the way you planned.
You have a plan, do you

BTW: Suppose something will change regarding FREE UPDATES for all OS's
Read something about this in the german forum...

Congrats Fred, that is a HUGE move..

fsw wrote: BTW: Suppose something will change regarding FREE UPDATES for all OS's
Read something about this in the german forum...

Heh, that's only possible for future customers and not existing ones But all in all, that should help Fred make a living off of PB

Best of luck to you fred... We all respect you for your decision, and cant wait to see whats coming

Shannara wrote: Heh, that's only possible for future customers and not existing ones

Well he could discontinue PureBasic...

And start a "NEW" Project called "Fred's Best Basic" which includes all stuff that is already in PureBasic and much more, but with a different license.
Voila

And if old customers want to be up to date they have to pay too

He can do what ever he needs to do to make a living 8O

Heck...

He's going to sell PB source to Microsoft for a buck...

Old costumers can upgrade to Visual Studio .PB for 250,00 euros and get the upgrade DVD...

New costumers can pay 900,00 euros for the licence* and get the 2 installation DVD's...

Now that's making money


* Updates not included - Software requires 1.6Gb hard disk space + 512mb memory to run Berikco's Visual Studio

fsw wrote:

Shannara wrote: Heh, that's only possible for future customers and not existing ones

Well he could discontinue PureBasic...

And start a "NEW" Project called "Fred's Best Basic" which includes all stuff that is already in PureBasic and much more, but with a different license.
Voila

And if old customers want to be up to date they have to pay too

He can do what ever he needs to do to make a living 8O

I never thought about fred discontinuing Purebasic.. 8O damn, I never thought of that at all.. ack! Well, that would be the only way in order to charge existing customers for updates 8O bah! If he does discontinue purebasic, I would definately pay for the "new product" if it's truely cross platform

Then again, if PB goes in the way of other discontinued basics, someone else might pick it up

Don't go starting a panic guys. 8O

Look out Fred, Microsoft could rip off Purebasic for a scripting language. They'll change 2 or 3 commands and call it APB... But I'm sure that's obvious to everyone

Thanks to all of you for the nice comments. For now... Wait'n'see

fsw wrote: BTW: Suppose something will change regarding FREE UPDATES for all OS's
Read something about this in the german forum...

There is no plan to change the actual licensing scheme, and if something ever change, it will be noticed on the purebasic.com website.

is it going to be a long wait..
i like knowing the dates that new release may come

btw would it be any load on you fred to set up a todo list that you can publish to the site or fourms every now and then

This is exciting news for Pure Basic, thanks for your dedication Fred!

Congratulations, Fred. I am sure it will be a success story.

Congrats on the great news! Cheers Fred

Wait a second, are you saying you've got a full time job in addition to developing PureBasic? Where do you find the time? Do you sleep? My God, that is just amazing! You must not be married or seeing anyone. I feel like such an underachiever! There must be some explanation!

Best wishes and good luck Fred!!!