On 10/26/2010 10:50 AM, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
Possible scam. He can surely start without money.
I'd be careful, indeed, but I don't necessarily agree with the second
sentence. Chris has posted a very nice recap of the current state:
http://www.subfurther.com/blog/?p=1305
including this paragraph:
Aside: when volunteers aren’t enough, the next step is to get out the
checkbook and call in mercenaries. I looked at javax.sound
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/overview-summary.html>
yesterday and estimated it would take me 4-6 weeks, full-time, to do a
production-quailty port using Core Audio. I’ll bid the project out at
$20,000. Sign a contract and I’ll contribute the sources to any project
you like (OpenJDK, Harmony, whatever). You know where to reach me. And
I’m not holding my breath.
Because, yes, we have a volunteering problem. Landon Fuller and some
other people did a very good inception job two years ago, but there were
no followers. So, money can be a solution. Of course, put in the way
JKoala put them, it's a matter of trust about the person behind it (I've
not looked at who he is). The $50,000 figure makes some sense, if you
compare it with the $20,000 for javax.sound alone - indeed, for the
whole Cocoa port I think something in the area of $200,000 would make
more sense.
If Oracle is not interested in maintaining a port by itself, it would be
not a bad idea to give some sponsorship (I mean, not to JKoala
necessarily, but to a some better organised team, a contract-based
effort, which should include Landon if he agrees). Probably not all the
money, they could just tell they're available to offer a part and I
think some other actor from the community could join.
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