Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

Jason Shoemaker wrote:
>
>  Isn't having to pay a lot of money to have access to smalltalk source 
> what hurt smalltalk so much in the first place?  The authors of 
> Dolphin would rather see it die than help the smalltalk community.  
> Why reward that kind of attitude?
>
The bad attitude is the one expressed above.  The Dolphin guys spent a 
good chunk of their lives invested in building Dolphin and have every 
right to be compensated.

> Dolphin needs the support of the open source community, more than we 
> need Dolphin. The author's may discover that.
>
You don't speak for "we" or the open source "community".
> On 9/6/07, *John Cowan* < [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     That's a lot of money (USD 230K).  What makes this Smalltalk
>     different enough from other Smalltalks  to be worth ransoming?
>     Those of us outside the Dolphin community need to know
>     before we kick in our contributions.
>
>
>
> >


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