At 02:15 AM 10/4/2001, you wrote:
>On Thursday 04 October 2001 9:29 am, Eleknader wrote:
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> > There is also a commercial database product called Rekall (produced by The
> > Kompany), which will be released quite soon, and will be released for free
> > (free to be used, not free to be hacked). I'm sure Shawn Gordon from The
> > Kompany will be willing to inform you about Rekall.
>
>Since Shawn is probably asleep right now, here's a quick statement (by me, as
>the main Rekall developer). BTW please don't read this as an advert

yes I was asleep actually :).  You will have to pay for Rekall.  We are 
trying to provide a free (as in cost) "lite" version, but I don't know when 
that will be available because our first priority is to finish the 
commercial version.

>* Rekall is an "Access-like" database front end
>* It is commercial
>* It will come with source code
>* You _will_ be free to hack the source code (we're not M$oft:) but
>* You _will not_ be free to redistribute the source code
>
>We'll be happy to consider incorporating stuff into the code if we think its
>a good idea (OK, we'd benefit, I admit it).
>
>Personally (and this _is_ my personal opinion), I'd be quite happy to for
>user-written patches to be made public, the only issue being the problem of
>someone contacting us and saying "I have a problem, and I haven't changed the
>source code, honest!".
>
>Regards
>Mike
>
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>mike@quaking.demon.co.uk
>http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk