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+====== GOLDED.BETA ======
+==== Descrizione ====
+Area internazionale dei betatester di GoldED
+==== Goldware International - Closed! :-((( ====
+<code>
+= [13] GoldEd Betatester (2:331/501.3) =========================== GOLDED.BETA =
+ Msg  : #930 [12]
+ Da   : Odinn Sorensen                      2:236/77        Lun Lug 01 96 20:09
+ A    : All
+ Ogg  : Goldware International - Closed! :-(((
+================================================================================
+.MSGID: 2:236/77 31d830eb
+.TID: GE 1.11+
+* Crossposted in GOLDED
+* Crossposted in GOLDED.BETA
+* Crossposted in GOLDED.SITES
+* Crossposted in GOLDED_R23.PNT
+* Crossposted in R20_GOLDED
+* Crossposted in GOLDED.GER
+* Crossposted in GOLDBETA.GER
+Hello All.
+This is a very sad day for me. Today I was forced to close my company, Goldware
+International.
+When I started Goldware International in 1991, I knew very little about
+accounting and tax rules, and because of my ignorance I managed to build up a
+substantial tax debt. Ever since my errors were discovered some years ago, my
+economy has been very difficult. Then in fall/winter 1995, my income (GoldED
+registrations) started a relentless dive toward zero. In may 1996 it had fallen
+to an all-time low of 1/10 of the average of previous years. I could no longer
+live on my business alone, so I considered some of my options: A job on the
+side, an education on the side, or social security on the side. I chose the
+latter as the best solution if I wanted to keep my business running, but I was
+turned down. After further and very hard consideration, I have chosen to close
+my business entirely and instead restart my education. Having my business at the
+same time as an education or a job would be too stressful and both would suffer.
+So how does this affect GoldED?  When I don't have a business, I cannot take
+payment for registrations. Therefore I have decided to change GoldED from
+Shareware to Freeware status as of today. Maybe some day I will be able to
+change it back to Shareware, but that is likely to be in the far future. As of
+today, I no longer accept payment, and (to the best of my abilities) I will
+return any payment I may receive after today. I cannot refund any payments made
+to me before today, sorry. I have instructed all my registration sites to return
+any registration payments that they receive on or after 1. july 1996. I cannot
+guarantee that you can receive a 100% full refund if you have sent a payment to
+a registration site on or after today. The reg.site may have had costs
+associated with receiving the payment or other circumstances. Please be
+understanding and don't blow this up to a big problem. Please also be aware that
+I have cancelled *all* GoldED registration sites today. This means that as of
+today, there are *no* GoldED registration sites at all. Note that it may be a
+while before the now former reg.sites remove their reg.site banners, orderforms
+etc. I hope that nobody will feel bad if they *just* registered before today and
+can't get a refund. I'm sorry.
+I am very grateful for your support until now, and I will do what I can to
+continue work on GoldED even as a Freeware product. However, my education will
+take first priority over everything else. My prior experience with having a
+full-time job or education at the same time as working on GoldED showed me that
+I can't do both very well. So I will put my main energies into the education and
+do as much work on GoldED as I can in my spare time. Of course I would also like
+to have a life, so GoldED may take third place or even lower in periods. My
+education starts in early/mid august.
+Future plans for GoldED: Actually not much has changed - my intentions are the
+same, except that I will have less time to work on it. I am still working on the
+advanced features and restructuring of GoldED \"Firebird\" v3.00. The next public
+release will be the recently announced GoldED 2.51, which is basically a
+slightly more stable GoldED 2.50 with the features and fixes of 3.00.Alpha1
+incorporated. GoldED 2.51 will be released in the usual versions for DOS, 386
+and OS/2 plus a new Win32 textmode version for Windows 95 and NT. I am still
+working on finalizing 2.51, but it should be released early this month (july). I
+am also working on a true Windows version as well as an OS/2 PM version.
+Currently my GUI development work is still very much in the learning stage, but
+I'm making pretty good progress. It shouldn't bee too long before I can begin to
+show running versions of my design studies.
+The coming GoldED 2.51 and future releases of 3.xx will have a built-in
+registration key, so that you won't have to go to me or a reg.site to register
+the program. Until then, I am releasing publicly a 100% free registration key,
+which will work in all versions of all current and older GoldED releases. Here
+it is:
+  ;SERIALNO    7777DK7
+  REGISTERNAME Everyone
+  REGISTERKEY  731E74072408340421751F527354752C1E0F
+So, to make your GoldED registered, simply copy these three lines into your
+GOLDED.CFG or into a file named GOLDED.KEY.
+If you have a key already, please keep it safe - it may be worth something in
+the future when/if GoldED becomes Shareware again. In the mean time, feel free
+to use the free key instead, if you decide to change to a version that your
+current key is not valid for.
+I will stay tuned to the GoldED echoes and I will also continue to maintain the
+WWW and FTP sites at winet.dk. My e-mail address is still odinn@image.dk, but
+the odinn@ibm.net address has been cancelled, and I don't know how long I can
+keep the odinn@winboss.dk address. My BBS and mailer is still open at the usual
+number. My voice phone number has changed, because I had to close a line to save
+money. My new voice number is: +45-58162225.
+Bye for now.
+Odinn
+--- GoldED/W32 2.51.A0620+
+ * Origin: http://www.winet.dk/goldware * e-mail: odinn@image.dk (2:236/77)
+SEEN-BY: 203/614 234/96 236/5 77 100 310/79 331/128 501 504 341/19 440/6
+SEEN-BY: 512/57 600/600
+</code>
+==== Status report 7. july 1996 ====
+<code>
+===============================================================================
+# messaggio archiviato Mon, 08 Jul 96
+# Area : GOLDED.BETA (GoldEd Betatester)
+# Da   : Odinn Sorensen, 2:236/77 (Do, 07 Lug 96 14:28)
+# A    : All
+# Ogg  : Status report 7. july 1996
+===============================================================================
+@MSGID: 2:236/77 31dfd1ec
+@TID: GE 1.11+
+Hello All.
+I have good news and bad news.
+The good news is that I have been able to save my company! :-)  As I wrote
+last time, I had to choose between job, education or welfare on the side. As
+it turned out, it was very limited what welfare help I could get, and if I
+closed my company, I would owe a large sum for the VAT of the computer
+equipment I bought for the business. Weighing the factors carefully, I chose
+to keep my company. I am still going to take the education. The education is
+Bachelor of Engineering and will take 3 1/2 years. It begins in august, but
+due to the age of my exams, I have to take a "brush-up" course in math from
+now until the normal education begins. The school is horribly far from my home
+in Boeslunde, and public transportation takes 2 hours each way. Because of
+this, I have chosen (had to choose) to move to a room in a student hostel a
+few hundred meters from the school. I'm moving a lot of my stuff there already
+today. I don't know my exact address yet, but I'll let you know as soon as I
+can.
+The bad news is that I am unable to pay my phonebill, so I have to close my
+FidoNet nodes for an unknown period of time, starting right now. In the period
+where I am out of FidoNet, I will ask one of the reg/support sites to forward
+messages for me.
+Because my company was not closed, I am hereby *revoking* the freeware status
+of GoldED and withdrawing the free key with the serial number 7777DK7. Future
+versions (2.51 and next 3.00.Alpha) will not recognize the key as valid.
+Please stop using it.
+In other words, GoldED is now again *shareware* and payment is once again
+required if you decide to keep it after the evaluation period.
+PLEASE NOTE, however, that not all of the former reg.sites will be opened
+again. Specifically, the FidoNet Zone 1 coordinator and his sites have closed.
+Replacements will be set up as soon as possible, if possible, but it may take
+some time. Because of my temporary pause from FidoNet, communication between
+me and the reg.sites may be difficult, so please have patience while we are
+sorting out the mess.
+Until I'm back in FidoNet (which may possibly be only as a point, at least in
+the beginning), you can only send me mail via Internet. Until further notice,
+use the odinn@image.dk address. I should be able to access it from the schools
+Internet connection. I should be getting a school-specific Internet address
+soon. I will let you know what it is when I get it. For regular status
+updates, try checking out my homepage at http://www.winet.dk/goldware. I
+haven't had time to update it with all the new happenings, but I hope to get
+it updated within the next week.
+Odinn
+--- GoldED/W32 2.51.A0620+
+ * Origin: http://www.winet.dk/goldware * e-mail: odinn@image.dk (2:236/77)
+SEEN-BY: 234/96 236/5 77 100 310/79 331/501 504 341/19 440/6 512/57 600/600
+@PATH: 236/77 331/501
+</code>