There's a reason why companies shell out cash for Red Hat: accountability and quality assurance. They're not buying Linux alone, they're also buying a support and service contract that ensure that when things go wrong, they can go back to Red Hat/IBM/whoever and yell at them to fix it.
This is a big difference. A company that wants to use DynAPI can choose from: A) all the free but unmaintained, unsupported widgets out there B) spending a salary's worth of cash hiring/training someone to build custom widgets C) or spending $30 for the Dan Steinman Widget Pack, written by himself, with support and documentation QA from himself You get what you pay for. I hardly see how an exclusive pack of widgets written by the creator of DynAPI is going to kill us. I can count the number of companies that currently use some variant of DynAPI on one hand. If anything, I expect MORE companies would be interested in using DynAPI if someone were to charge for their expertise. As far as contributions go, uhmmm, I believe Dan was referring to the fact that no one has contributed significantly to the core GUI widgets that come *with the distro*, and haven't in a very, very long time. The current List widget in the 2.5.6 distro was submitted by myself waaaay back in September 2000, because we'd gone almost a year without a List widget for DynAPI 2. But there's really nothing more to contribute anyway. All the major components are there: list, scrollbar, button, etc. Everything else is fluff, IMO. Nice fluff, but fluff. scottandrew -- scott andrew lepera [EMAIL PROTECTED] web stuff: www.scottandrew.com music stuff: www.walkingbirds.com _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
