On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Dean Arnold wrote: > Er, marketting in what way ?
I see the email as an attempt to attract new developers to the project. Hence it is, in some respects, an attempt to "market" DBI v2 to developers. > Developing DBI/DBDs costs time & resources. Many major for-profit > orgs are leveraging DBI (and Perl in general) to make lots (and I > again mean *lots*) of money. Asking them to pony up some modest > contributions (or at least staff time) *for their own benefit and > security* doesn't seem like "marketting" any more than this > weekend's Live 8 concert is "marketting" for starving children in > Africa (ok, maybe thats not a PC metaphor, but hopefully it gets the > point across). The fact they choose to "live off the fat of the > land" is more than a bit frustrating. If anything, perhaps DBI and > DBD authors should use a MySQL type dual license to cover the > development/support costs. Relax. I'm just suggesting that Tim not talk about a fund drive that more-or-less failed when trying to drum up volunteers for the new project. It will be obvious to everyone who reads this that $500 isn't enough to help in a significant way. That may serve to subtract from the otherwise positive tone of his plea. -sam
