[PicForth] Thank You Samuel

[David McNab]

Hi Samuel and friends,

The project I've been slaving away on for the last two months, a 
specialised therapeutic biofeedback appliance, has just now borne fruit 
in the form of a working, usable, self-contained boxed prototype, and is 
now in a state where I can shop for grants and finance to take it to market.

Much credit goes to Samuel for the consummately powerful and flexible 
PIC software development system known as PicForth, and Samuel's decision 
to share PicForth via an easy Open Source licensing scheme, without the 
draconian requirements of the GPL.

My appliance's software is quite complex (now more than 5k binary and 
growing). Without PicForth, the software development would have taken 
much longer, and caused me far greater frustration. It's possible that 
if I had persisted with the C/Assembler blend I started out with, I may 
have gotten discouraged to the point of possibly abandoning the project. 
On the other hand, PicForth's superior flexibility has helped me at 
every stage of the development cycle and saved countless hours of pain.

So Samuel, I've written this message to thank you publicly for your 
efforts, your ongoing presence on the mailing list, and your willingness 
to continually refine PicForth.

It's not guaranteed at this stage whether my project will see the light 
of day commercially. I truly hope it does, because of all the time and 
money I've spent on it so far. But providing I can overcome the hurdles 
of taking it to production/marketing/distribution, I undertake that 10% 
of net profits from sales will be divided up amongst people who have had 
direct and indirect roles in helping the project see the light of day. 
Samuel, you are indelibly on this list of beneficiaries. In the event of 
the project passing the break-even point and returning actual profit 
(fingers crossed), I'll be asking you for account details and/or postal 
address.

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Cheers
David