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 email@hidden
"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."
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