On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 02:26 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > If they really want to get people to give money then they should just > make it so that you have to pay or contribute code/time for a while to > get access to the newest downloads from their site. Keep the stable > version far enough behind the development version that people will pay > to get the newest code base.
its really rather amusing to see people speculating on what the developers of LS could or could not do, when the actual relevant "encounter" with "commercial interests" has *already* happened. it did not go well. it can be tempting to imagine that we understand the motivations of commercial organizations and can therefore offer them appropriate carrots. don't be so confident of this. both the LS developers and myself are under the terms of an NDA, so it is not possible to discuss with any relevant detail precisely what happened. but it was nasty, it was unpleasant and as i've said before, it would be better for people to not make so many assumptions about their ability to guess at what might or might happen when a commercial company shows interest in a tool like LS. --p