Re: Open source WO - offer

Cephalo Podus,

> Given the fact that this has already been attempted several times, I 
> still
> wonder how many times people will retry to invent that round thing 
> called a
> wheel...
>
> One man-year of work for free??? Who is going to pay your rent and your
> food?
Thank you, rest assured however that you do not need to be concerned 
about my rent and food. I am a president and co-owner of a company 
employing well over a hundred of developers. And I haven't said I would 
dedicate my own man-year.
> Don't you have any for-profit projects?
Well, we always could have more.
> And, moreover, what's the benefit of that? I can have WO today for free
> whenever I want, and as such it probably won't go away anytime soon.
The #1 benefit would be safe future. Apple can decide tomorrow that WO 
Java is not supported anymore and they are rewriting it in Whitespace or 
even B/F, like they did to Objectve-C. Like they did to YellowBox. The 
benefit #2 would be the ability to go further. For example, EOF cannot 
do multithreaded queries, and this has been going on for years.
> Sure, maybe somebody will even use it ;-)
>
Sigh.

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Regards,
Wojtek