The Future

[Eric Pearson]

PowerBASIC et al was closed by its latest owner. All employees were reassigned. Taxwell clearly has zero interest in continuing it, they won't even answer emails or postal mail about it.  It's a 32-bit complier in a 64-bit world that is increasingly web-oriented, which PB is not.  So I doubt that Taxwell would care enough to object to somebody else using the domain, and if they did object... we can honestly say "sorry, our bad, we'll get another domain".  We are clearly NOT trying to make money using their brand, and we are not damaging the brand.  In fact we are a User Group dedicated to peer-supporting PowerBASIC.

At the very least powerbasic.com could have an explanatory page that sends visitors to the new forum, regardless of the final domain.  Maybe powerbasic.org?

If Taxwell does renew the domain, then it's moot. I predict they won't.