On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:55:00PM -0600, Mark J Roberts wrote:
> Kaffe's threading problems would probably only take its author a day
> or two to fix. To pay $1000 for the job would not be unreasonable.
> 
> The return on investment is a platform that is much less susceptible
> to mysterious bugs that we are impotent to address. This is tempered
> by the fact that Kaffe's Windows support may not be adequate, which
> leaves most users subject to the vagaries of proprietary software
> and invites accusations of elitism.
> 
> I don't know what to choose.

The problem, of course, is that we don't have the money to pay me*, never
mind buy in a fix. And this naturally extends to blackmail, of course,
though I'm sure they have more integrity than that.

* I am now paid monthly instead of bimonthly, purely because we didn't
have the cash to pay two months.

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