James and others,
I think we should definitely contact Nick Nallick.
I pondered awhile as to why this happened. One day we were getting answers to our support questions. And then, suddenly, nothing. Two thoughts came to my mind:
(a) He has died and the executors of his estate are unable to deal with his accounts. Perhaps they don’t know the passwords?
We can do something about (a). Deaths are recorded in publicly viewable (usually free and online) documents. We know his name, rough age, address(es). I know how to do this here in Canada, but not in the US. Is there someone in the US prepared to check this out? If we can find his executors we may be able to make some progress.
I’d suggest that we prepare a list of supporters names. If we can show them 100 users who want to pay money to continue, that should help our cause.
(b) A large company, perhaps beginning with A, which also sells illustration software, bought Purgatory Design out and imposed an absolute shutdown. That’s one way to kill off competition.
Either way, I shall be keeping the .dmg for version 3.9.5 and an older iMac on which to run it. For a long time.
I have a background in software development and have written some macOS applications but do not count myself as a Mac professional. I believe the hard work is done on this application. If there are no new features required this should not be too burdensome to maintain. Moving to new releases of macOS should not be too difficult.
James, if it does turn out that Nick cannot be persuaded to return, then we should definitely urge him or his successors to sell the intellectual property. Perhaps, we could form a group to buy it. Perhaps someone else would. But, at least, it would be back in circulation.
One final thought. A developer who puts as much work into a product as this, gets very attached to it. I doubt very much that Nick would drop his wonderful creation.
Let me know what you think.
Mike Powell
Victoria, BC, Canada
On Jul 28, 2021, at 19:55, James R. Ingram email@hidden wrote:
1. CONTACTING DEVELOPER NICK NALLICK: (Has Anyone Tried ??)
I think I remember someone saying. that they had tried emailing the Intaglio developer Nick Nallick, and gotten no reply ??
QUESTION: Has anyone else tried to contact Nick. Jack Jennings discussed this back in February (in a different thread), but I can find no discussion that anyone followed through on it.
2. A FUTILE ATTEMPT ??
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Trying to contact Nick may likely be a FUTILE undertaking, but we should probably try it – so we can say that we have EXHAUSTED that alternative.
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But as Jack Jennings pointed out (in a different thread), we don’t want to be “harassing” Nick – if attempts have already been made.
* If nobody has seriously tried to contact Nick yet, I will probably try to do it myself {groan :-) }.
* On the web page http://macintaglio.com/developer we have documented about 3 possible snail mail addresses, 2 phone numbers, and a Facebook page -- none of which may be any good.
But I can try them all.
- THREE QUESTIONS:
The 3 QUESTIONS I would ask Nick are:
* Q1: Any possibility of us paying you to update this program?
* Q2: Any possibility of us paying you to subcontract the updating of this program? (if you’re too busy yourself)
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If Intaglio cannot be updated:
* Q3: Do you have any idea, what would be the most SIMILAR application — that could import Intaglio SVG data files?
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