Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

I don't have anything invested in Dolphin. If they hold on it till it rots,
probably won't affect me. I cared more about people helping compensate
'open' work already being done. Enough said.

On 9/6/07, Mark Haniford <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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?
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> > 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.
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> You're not really going anywhere.  I don't see any gain for the Dolphin
> developers.
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> > Anyways, cheers to Strongtalk and Squeak on their open licenses. Let's
> > work together to create the type of environment we want.
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> > 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?
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> >     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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