Topic: WeatherCat for the moment is free

[Windy Old Geezer]

https://trixology.com/get-license/

[wurzelmac]

Wow - looks like selling out. Not a good sign.

[Windy Old Geezer]

Agreed - I wouldn’t be surprised if before long a notice appears saying no further development of WeatherCat will take place!

[JosBaz]

Indeed, an indication this might be coming to an end. Quite sad (I started with Lighthouse Weather Center!) but hopefully it will keep running for a few more years - can't think of a reason why it wouldn't.

[elagache]

Dear Windy Old Geezer, Reinhard, Jos, and WeatherCat faithful,

Unfortunately there can be no doubt, something has changed in the regulatory climate that has forced Stu's hand - at least for the moment.  Stu has always been extremely careful to protect his legal position and preserve his own privacy.  He should have absolutely every right to do so.  WeatherCat is simply a business conducted in Stu's free time and he has every right to charge a fair price for his labors.

Alas, that's the trouble comes in.  The only reason Stu would take such a drastic step is to protect his legal position.  I think all we can do is stand by Stu and WeatherCat, and hope somehow, that the legal situation is reverted to something sane.

I'm calling all WeatherCatters to hang tough with Stu during these difficult times.  If we truly want WeatherCat to continue, there isn't much else we can do.

Edouard

[blick]

Before these forums become read only would it be possible for you to state unequivocally what the future holds for WeatherCat

Many thanks

Development continues. I'm currently working on V332 (see https://live.trixology.com/custom/ for the latest version on test) - the main aim of 332 is to fix a startup crash and add those two missing rain channels to the WLIP driver.

The reason I wrote first LWC (about a hundred years ago it seems ) and then WeatherCat is because I couldn't find anything to suit my needs - that continues to be the case.

As a further change, for the time being WeatherCat is free - registration info can be found at https://trixology.com/get-license/

This is now rescinded.

As an additional personal note, I find this particularly annoying - I've kept these forums running through thick and thin (sometimes on extremely dodgy hardware and extremely dodgy connections) and now I'm done in by a somewhat overreaching act.

I do hope to be able to bring these forums back to full functionality sometime in the future, but for now, many thanks to Ken!

Cheers,
Stu.