On Jul 5, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Ricardo Strausz wrote:
There are a lot of good business reasons to _not_ develop this. I
notice that everyone wants Mike to do it. I don't see anyone who
thinks it is such a good idea that their company should do it. :-)
Chuck
Wise Chuck!
I also would like someone to develop a Cocoa EOF replacement, and
pay her $500...
Dino
I predict that, unless there is a financial reward of some kind, that
WOLips development will stagnate and/or come to a complete halt
within the next 18 months if not sooner. And yes, that is a
challenge to the developers to hopefully prove me wrong.
This has always been the problem and always will be the problem is
that the OpenSource community has trained people to expect free
software to the point were the users actually refuse to pay for it no
matter how good it is. Usually people try to get their employers to
buy it for them (which is were I get 99% of my software) but if they
have to shell out the money themselves then they won't do it. They'd
rather steal it first.
But from a developer's point of view, it's really hard to eat when
you're not making any money. As a result the OpenSource developers
tend to loose their motivation to continue development of their
projects. Instead they tend to go off and focus their energies on
projects that do make them money.
The end result is that OpenSource software, like WOLips, tend to
reach what I call the "Good Enough For Free Stage" and then the
developers abandon it. We've seen this in the Linux community for a
number of years now. Things are still progressing but VERY SLOWLY.
Meanwhile SourceForge is littered with the bones of abandoned
OpenSource projects that developers have lost interest in.
--
Galen Rhodes
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"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he
does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
-- Robert Heinlein --
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