Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

John Cowan wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Mark Haniford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> The Dolphin guys spent a
>> good chunk of their lives invested in building Dolphin and have every
>> right to be compensated.
>>     
>
> Capitalism doesn't, as it happens, work that way.  Nobody has a
> "right" to be compensated for working, even really hard for a long time,
> unless someone actually wants the product of their work enough
> to pay for it. 
No, I said a right, not an obligation.

>  Since this product is being abandoned, it's probably
> no longer paying the developers enough to justify further
> investment.
>   
I wouldn't use the term abandoned.

> The decade they have put into it is no longer an investment, therefore;
> it's a sunk cost, and it's irrational to make decisions based on how
> much you have sunk into something now worthless.
Wrong, It's not worthless.

>   (You shouldn't
> go to a play you don't want to see just because you paid $$$$ for a
> ticket back when you did want to.That money is gone, and you
> should decide what to do based on how much fun it will be and
> what it will cost you *now*.)
>   
Bad analogy.
> So indeed they can sit on it until it rots, or they can try to extract
> one final payment for it.  If people decide they need this particular
> Smalltalk for their own purposes, I don't discourage them from
> paying for it -- for them it is not a sunk cost but an asset worth
> liberating.  But before I pay, I'd like to know the specific
> advantages, that's all.
>
>   
That actually makes sense.  Whether it's worth $230k is another story.  
IMO, some advantages that Dolphin has over other Smalltalks are arguably 
the best development environment out there and really good Windows 
integration, which means it can be "sold" as an alternative to .NET.  
Squeak and Strongtalk can't.
> Sorry to make a fuss about this, but there's a general point here
> that needed addressing.
>
>   


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