Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

Jason Shoemaker wrote:
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> There is more than one path to compensation.
And how does any of the below benefit the Dolphin developers? Feel-goodism?

> I want companies and developers to have easy access to a good open 
> smalltalk vm.
And because "you" want something, the Dolphin developers should just 
give away a decade's worth of investment?
> This could cause an environment where more are willing to risk 
> studying and using the language. This could turn into more jobs. Who 
> would be more of an expert than the lead developers? See where I'm 
> going?  Long-term, not short term gain.
>
You're not really going anywhere.  I don't see any gain for the Dolphin 
developers.

> Anyways, cheers to Strongtalk and Squeak on their open licenses. Let's 
> work together to create the type of environment we want.
>
> On 9/6/07, *Mark Haniford* < [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Jason Shoemaker wrote:
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>     >  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.
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