Paul Vigay wrote:
[snip] There are vastly more *potential* RISC OS users than that. The problem is in reaching them. There are 1000s of RISC OS users who don't even know there are other RISC OS users around. I would say that at least once a week I get a phone call from someone, with a RISC OS support enquiry, who a) seem shocked when I tell them I'm using a RISC OS machine as my main machine and b) are even more shocked when I tell them there's an active RISC OS community, as they think they're the only one left. Indeed, Orpheus has over 400 RISC OS customers who probably never even use Newsgroups, so the people who /do/ read and participate in newsgroups I would say is a very small minority of potential users. There are still 3000 people on the Ant mailing list, and that's not even been developed for a number of years. [snip]
There are about 300 names in my programming agency database, which also has not been developed for years, but that does not mean that any of these agencies are still in business.
You state that you know of many people who run RISC OS and are unaware of other RISC OS users and do not use RISC OS forums. Let us accept that there are indeed thousands of these people, rather than a figment of your imagination. Why don't you contact these people and inform them of the joys of OPro and ask them to contact David Pilling?
I know that you will not consider passing on the details of these people to David Pilling so that he can mailshot them (privacy etc), so why don't you make the first move? If there is any substance at all to your claims, then this might result in extra sales for OPro (RISC OS or Windows) and indeed any other software that is being developed for RISC OS.
Will you (can you) do this, or have I called your bluff? -- Regards, Phillip MarsdenFor quality bespoke acoustic guitars phillip.marsden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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