Rekall not longer available from theKompany.com

John Dean john at rygannon.com
Thu Oct 30 07:00:00 EST 2003


Many of our supporters have sent email asking for a reason why Rekall has
been taken away from theKompany.com (TKC). Basically, the answer is TKC is
bankrupt. TKC's team of developers have not been paid for over 5 months
(some even longer).

Sometime in June this year, we were are told to find alternative work until
TKC's financial situation improves. The development of Rekall is a full time
job so Mike and myself were unable to comply, since we were already
committed to releasing Rekall V2.1.0 in a timely manner. We decided that it
was unfair to our customers to expect them to wait for TKC's finanical
situation to improve, which could be anything from 12 months to 3 years.
Consequently, Mike and I decided that it would be in the best interest of
our customers if we took back Rekall and continued its development alone.

You may remember what happened with Black Adder, TKCs Python IDE. TKC
released for sale Black Adder beta over 3 years ago at a discounted price,
with a promise of a free upgrade once BA V1.0 stable was completed. BA V1.0
stable made its first appearance at the end of August this year, over 3
years late. This kind of thing is not going to happen with Rekall.

Rekall will always be available from http://www.totalrekall.co.uk and
http://www.rygannon.com. Furthemore, there may be the possibility that
sometime in the future we will release Rekall under the GPL and only charge
a nominal fee for email support on a subscription basis, so keep an eye on
either of the Total Rekall Portals

On behalf of Mike and myself I would like to apoloze for any inconvenience
or confusion our actions may caused.

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Best Regards
John




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