Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

Jason Shoemaker wrote:
> I don't have anything invested in Dolphin.
Obviously

> If they hold on it till it rots, probably won't affect me.
Whatever they do probably won't affect you.

> I cared more about people helping compensate 'open' work already being 
> done. Enough said.
>
"You" can already do that.  Have at it.
> On 9/6/07, *Mark Haniford* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
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>     Jason Shoemaker wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > 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]>
>     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >     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.
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