I seems that he doesn't plan to make any changes in the contents
of the FAQs other than running them through a HTML filter. He is
also going to make an online beta version available to let the
contributors check how their FAQs are going to look on the CDROM.
He admits that the vague wording in his first request was due to
his anxiety not to give too many details on the technical side of
his project, lest someone might steal his idea of an HTML FAQ CDROM.
He bought the Walnut Creek CDROM after I told him about it, and
he is confident that his product will be much better than this
collection of ASCII texts.
He asked me to forward the following text to the list (he had
already sent a request to join the list, but it seems to be still
in the "in" queue of the list maintainers).
>I realised five problems with that mailing I had:
>
>o First, I will keep a unchanged version of that FAQ ON the CD-Rom
> and reformat a copy of it, to build a HTML-version !
>
>o Second, I really cant send authors in Asia or Amerika a copy, because
> of the software license fees (about $8) and the postage to these
> countries (horrible $18 right now, the dollar is dropping and dropping
> and is has to go via Air-Mail, so that it arrives in about 10 days
> instead of 8 weeks !).
>
> And if I send on author I have to send ALL, everything else will
> be unfair !
>
>I cant pay that. If the author can cover the postage, he will get
>a CD for a special price (just paying the fees !) and I will put
>a BETA-Version online, so that the authors can re-check to changes !
>
>o Third, there were a lot of spelling mistakes in the mailing.
> Please forgive me, I'm not native english speaking.
>
>o Fourth, I have to consist on a ASCII-version of the FAQ, because
> I have to automate the process of building the databases
> (no more details to that, cos then I can tell everybody how
> to do it right away ;o)
>
>o Fifth, some people dont like the idea that I will pay the programming
> and fees for the software, but dont like to pay the money to send
> the contributors free CD's. That's cos without that software the
> CD-Rom will be boring, dull and not sellable at all and I am not
> able to write that software alone ! And on the other end I am
> not willing to spend money, that is not going into the project and
> let the German Post get richer and richer ...
>
>
>And on the other end I am quite sick of explaining the whole project.
>If I explain ANY more, everybody will be able to do the same and
>my whole research, test-programming, mailing and all that will be
>for nothing.
>
>Who doesnt like the project like it is, is free to say NO, I respected
>all NO's soo far and there are already enough contributors to give that
>projects a chance. Thnx to them !!
>
>Best regards to all, Phade
I still have some problems with his project, but I admit they are
mostly based on his attitude.
I checked the references he gave in his sig:
>PHADE Software, Leibnizstr. 30, 10625 Berlin, GERMANY
>Inh. Frank Gadegast Fon/Fax: +49 30 3128103
>
>phade@contrib.de http://www.contrib.de/~phade
and found out that he has written several PD and shareware
programs (mostly MPEG players and converters), compiled an
MPEG CDROM and maintains the MPEG FAQ. So maybe his contribution
to the multimedia world are indeed as great as he feels them
to be.
Greetings,
Bernhard
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