I am skeptical about fundraising in general, but then somehow even
losing US political candidates manage to raise tens of millions for
their campaigns, so what do I know :-)
Good luck! And maybe if you raise the cash upfront (as opposed to
trying to recoup the costs by selling licenses afterwards), you can
keep the tool open source?
Andrus
On Jul 5, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Jerry W. Walker wrote:
Although $500 might be a fair reward for such a tool, I truly doubt
that enough parties would pay it to cover Chuck's and Mike's
estimates.
I think that there are few on this list who individually, or whose
companies, would pony up $500 per developer head for an undeveloped
piece of software. That would mean that either some one or two
companies underwrites the development, or the developers work for
about a year on no pay until they have a product to market, then
they might get paid, but only after people have taken the time to
download and test the resulting product and found it worthy. That
latter activity can take a few months for many in the community.
Once they have the new WOBuilder in hand, how many of them will
hold the old WOBuilder in the other hand and say, "Hmmm... $500
for this one and the old one is FREE along with the WO frameworks,
all the other development tools and Project Wonder! Does it make
sense for me to spend $500 on this one tool. Nah, we can get by
with the old tools till they cease to function, then we can keep a
couple workstations running the old versions of Mac OS X and WO to
get by for a few more years.
To Chuck and Mike, was your "... estimate of US$100,000 to US
$150,000 ..." based on starting from scratch, or on building from
the original WOBuilder's Objective C codebase? If Apple provided
the code base, would that reduce the estimate in your opinion?
I think building a new WOBuilder is a worthy objective, but I don't
realistically believe that whoever does it will recoup the money
indicated by estimates of the sizes given.
Regards,
Jerry
On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Simon McLean wrote:
On 5 Jul 2007, at 09:53, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:
Let's say 500$ for a fully functional, polished EntityModeler /
WOBuilder bundle...
That would be a fair reward, considering all the stuff Mike gave
to the community.
Now that is a fine idea.
Simon
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