On Sunday 08 January 2006 11:51 am, John Doty wrote: > On Jan 8, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Steve Meier wrote: > > The geda group should set up > > some method for donations as should other components. Open > > Source isn't > > free. It is payed for mostly by the developers who donate > > their time. Those of us who like these tools can tell the > > developers how much we appreciate their efforts by giving > > at least a little. Those of us who make a living using > > these tools should donate a lot. > > Yes! I'm sending a customer two big budget proposals today, > one for a project continuation, one for a new project. Ales, > Stuart et al. definitely deserve a cut...
I have been investigating sources of funding for gnucap. There is a possibility of funding based on the sale of non-GPL licenses of ACS (Al's Circuit Simulator, from which gnucap is derived). If I could get enough support, I would do it full time. If there is really enough, I would expand the staff. I thought of making a business, but I don't want to do the business type of work myself ... management, sales, etc. Been there, done that, once is enough. My plan of trying to do it through an academic position has not been working. I accomplished more when I was working for an EDA company, and managed to negotiate an IP contract that let me keep working on it. I left when the company was acquired and the new owner would not go along with it.
