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Well, the reserve price has been met. There is a currently bid for $30,000.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

It's done...
from the ibasic forum: the price was $50100

Well hope all goes well for the bidders and the seller.

My take: strange move.

Yeah I agree.... Strange move.... A bunch of the community got together and purchased it together. It will be interesting to see if all or even most of the people that pledged their money will actually pay up now that they have won. Hopefully they will, but I wouldn't be suprised if they dont.

Either way it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

But as I have said many times before.... Thank goodness for our PureBasic. Fred and team rocks!

fsw wrote:It's done...
from the ibasic forum:

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 I'm Proud to announce that our bid for Pyxia.com was successfull..

 (however it still has to be finalized.. Paperwork and payment)

 Partners in the Business are
 Shawn Webster (who you'll all meat later ..)
 Cameron Arnott (aka Blue Steel)
 and the Pledgers of the IBasic Community (please read msg in the registered members area) 

the price was $50100

Well hope all goes well for the bidders and the seller.

My take: strange move.

mlwhitt wrote:Yeah I agree.... Strange move.... A bunch of the community got together and purchased it together. It will be interesting to see if all or even most of the people that pledged their money will actually pay up now that they have won. Hopefully they will, but I wouldn't be suprised if they dont.

Either way it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

It seems to me that with this sale IBasic will likely continue with Paul's support. You have not lost your investment, hence there is no reason for all these (implicit) complaints. The lesson here should be that very few are immune to the stresses and pontential financial hardships in a sole proprietorship. Similarly, the owner of this site/Purebasic must contend with realities that neither you or I are privy. Please hold the judgements to a minimum.

Disclaimer: I don't any of Pyxia's products...

Didn't mean any (implicit) complaints. I will continue to keep up with iBasic's development as I have purchased the package, I was just wondering out loud how the switch over will work out. As I do have a minimal invested interest in this sale/purchase of Pyxia, I don't feel that it is wrong to openly state my concerns. Sorry if I have offended. Of if I offended you by stating "Thank goodness for Purebasic", well I AIN'T going to take that one back.

kns wrote:

mlwhitt wrote:Yeah I agree.... Strange move.... A bunch of the community got together and purchased it together. It will be interesting to see if all or even most of the people that pledged their money will actually pay up now that they have won. Hopefully they will, but I wouldn't be suprised if they dont.

Either way it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

It seems to me that with this sale IBasic will likely continue with Paul's support. You have not lost your investment, hence there is no reason for all these (implicit) complaints. The lesson here should be that very few are immune to the stresses and pontential financial hardships in a sole proprietorship. Similarly, the owner of this site/Purebasic must contend with realities that neither you or I are privy. Please hold the judgements to a minimum.

Disclaimer: I don't any of Pyxia's products...

Can anyone who is a member of the ibasic "members only" forum provide an update on the sale proceedings?

For some reason Paul has chosen to make the thread inaccessable to non-members (non-customers) - and until I know more about the sale, I wouldn't be interested in purchasing the product.

It's kind of a catch-22 - you can't get the information you need to decide if you want to become a customer unless you're already a customer

I think he's doing himself a disservice by keeping things "private".

Of course with how much I'm "loving" purebasic, I probably wouldn't anyway

cheers,

Paul gives a good enough reason for keeping things private for now, so I'll respect that.

It looks like IBasic is in good hands. The new owner has plenty of experience with another popular compiler and the price he has payed shows a strong commitment.

Paul will continue to be involved with IBasics development.

Looks like IBasic is now in a good position to move forward.

Thanks for the update.

Yes, seems it was bought by a former powerbasic owner, so it appears there is a committment to basic.

As long as Paul is able to stay around, it should be OK.

Timing could have been better from my standpoint - it just created a little too much uncertainty at the time I was making my purchase decision.

But all is well - I'm very satisfied with purebasic and all the contributors to the forums. It seems to have worked out for the best afterall + it saved me the time/effort of evaluating another basic "flavor":)

cheers

Well thinks seem to be going good. The gentleman that has purchased iBasic is a long time basic compiler developer that has a good rep. I was much relieved when I heard that he was the buyer and that it wasn't going to be some type of community deal like was mentioned. I think with that this way things will get done faster without everything having to be approved by a dozen people.

Does look like Paul is going to continue to be very active in the iBasic development tree as well.

So things are looking up.

I have just purchased IBASIC, unaware of all the goings on with PYXIA. Have tried to registed on the forums, but got no response - it's as if no-one is there. Emailed Paul Directly and recieved the shock news that even he no longer had access to the Forums! What a waste of £57. I feel used.

If you purchase through credit card, do a reverse ASAP. The current owner of iBasic will not work on the language at all, he's letting it sit and rot. The best bet is to head over with Paul's new language found @ http://www.ionicwind.com/forums/ .. At least that one have active progress, unlike iBasic.

No, your best bet is to try to get your money back then spend them on PureBasic, not Pauls new language.

webbmeister wrote:I have just purchased IBASIC, unaware of all the goings on with PYXIA. Have tried to registed on the forums, but got no response - it's as if no-one is there. Emailed Paul Directly and recieved the shock news that even he no longer had access to the Forums! What a waste of £57. I feel used.

Some of us here own IBasic as well. I really believe the core language will not be updated for a long long time. I really believe PureBasic 4.0 is a much better language over all, anyhow, IMO.

webbmeister wrote:Have tried to registed on the forums, but got no response

Ibasic Forums wrote:The newest registered user is thewebbmeister

isn't that you?

Shannara wrote:The best bet is to head over with Paul's new language found @ http://www.ionicwind.com/forums/ .. At least that one have active progress, unlike iBasic.

What?
Paul made a new programming language?

So he:

• started Pyxia
  created IBasic (p-code)
  created IBasicPro (native)
  struggled
  sold Pyxia and helped Pyxia a bit
  changed the syntax of his compiler
  started Ionic Wind
  renamed his compiler
  sells Aurora

Did he start Aurora from scratch?
Let me wonder how much code from IBasicPro went into his new compiler (IDE, libs etc.)

Hope he doesn't get into trouble with Pyxia's new owner