On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 at 10:48 Ashton Hogan <ashtonho...@ymail.com.invalid> wrote:
> I must say, based on my research, I truly believed commercial activity to > be the answer to revive NetBeans. Capitalism always outperforms socialism > in prosperity so why wouldn't capital work for NetBeans? > Nothing much to add to what others have said except please can we not stoop to this FLOSS == socialism rubbish. It shows a fundamental, and ultimately damaging, misunderstanding of FLOSS, socialism and capitalism. Other than that, time is money as they say - thanks Bertrand for the info on funding developer time - was going to ask for just that from an Apache perspective. Are there any thoughts / info about using something like Bountysource? Best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist & Technologist www.neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org
