Talk:Quark (company)

Untitled
Hi, folks. This article currently looks like it was thrown together from spare parts. I'm going to do a bit of work to make it scan better. - Robert Rapplean 17:19, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

The article says they didn't create Quark XPress until '87, but they'd been in business since '81. Can anyone tell us what they did before '87? - Robert Rapplean 21:54, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Who is Mark Pope?
Mark Pope has twice been added as a founder of Quark. I have been calling around inside of Quark and attempting to contact those who theoretically would have been around at the time, but still have not managed to reach anyone who could tell me who Mark Pope is/was. If anyone has any information on the topic, I would appreciate hearing about it.

I currently have three suspicions. 1. Mark was a lesser founder than Tim Gill who just managed to drop off the history books because he didn't stick around long enough, 2. Mark was an early employee of Quark who someone thinks was a founder, or 3. Mark is someone who may or may not have even been around at the time but really wants people to think that he was there and involved. Until we have some kind of evidence, I'm gonna have to insist that he be left entirely off of the article. - Robert Rapplean 12:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, new information. The mysterious person behind IP address 85.177.174.192 has linked to an article in the GLBTQ encyclopedia on Tim Gill, and that encyclopedia entry mentions Mark as a founder of Quark. On the other hand, I called the Tim Gill Foundation, and they hadn't heard of him, and never got back to me with Tim's side of things. Ditto with Fred's equivalent organization. This is inconclusive though because, like the current Quark management, none of them were around in 1980.

Fortunately for us (unfortunately for Mark), Mark's house got broken into the day before yesterday and his name and city showed up in the news papers. I have his phone number now, and will give him a call. - Robert Rapplean 16:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I have talked to Mark Pope. He tells me that he contributed funding and effort towards the creation of the company, and owned a portion of it from the outset.  Unless someone comes forward with a counter-story, this is going to have to stand as the official Wikipedia information. - Robert Rapplean 19:48, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Quark has its own office in Mohali, Punjab, India
Information that - Quark followed US trend and ofloaded its programming and customer support to some company in India is wrong. Quark has ist own office in India. Also, Quark City is a real estate project undertaken by Fred after retiring from Quark and it has nothing to do with software business; which is registered under the name Quark Media House in India. - Anubhav Bansal (talk) 09:01, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

On this point, I've removed the QuarkCity reference from this article. It might belong under Fred's personal article, or might make an article of its own, but it is completely unrelated to Quark, Inc., the software company. - Robert Rapplean (talk) 16:47, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Headquarters moved
Quark moved it's headquarters over a year ago out of the building pictured in the article, I don't even think the sign is on the building any more. For various reasons it's not appropriate for me to edit the article to fix this, but it should be easy to fix... They are currently headquartered at 1225 17th Street Suite 1200 Denver, CO 80202 65.128.13.93 (talk) 01:59, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Title of the Page
I think the title of the page should be Quark rather than Quark (company) because this organization is widely known and searched on Google and other search engines with the name of Quark. Amit15dhiman (talk) 06:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)