IMHO Bounty Hunting is better model. It saves spirit of non commercial development, but allows some stimulations and complex features (which is not a part of roadmap) development.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 13:52, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> For Squeak/Etoys/Scratch it's quite clear. Teaching programming to children. >> IMHO, there is no better software to teach childen. Alan Kay as community >> organizer and figurehead leading a crowd of followers. There is a community >> of people, driving that stuff slowly, but steadily forward. > > I will not comment that one :) > >> In germany its HPI investing lots into building up knowledge in >> Smalltalk/Squeak/EToys. Money comes from SAP founder. Very idealistic man. > > I do not think so. Money does not come for that. Now that students develop > etoy projects > >> The situation of Pharo reminds me a bit of Dolphin Smalltalk: Where's the >> customer who urgently needs such a product? >> >> There are a lot of free competitors around: Smalltalk/X, GNU, Little, Vista >> ... > > > Little, Vista really :) > I let them to you :) > >> It's not easy to explain the differences of concepts behind those >> smalltalks. But it's much harder to explain, why we need to invest more time >> and sink more money into a (commercially) "sinking boat" of technology. > > don't worry we will succeed. > ... > >> But: I still can't figure out, where exactly Pharo or Smalltalk as software >> technology could occupy a vacant market niche or even set standards. > > > Of course if you compare Pharo with system that got multimillion dollars. > Now our goal is to make sure that people will be able to make business > with an open-source smalltalk and that we will start to rethink the > infrastructure. > > Now we were talking about 120 Euros per year!!!! > The basic shareware software I buy for my machine cost 60 Euros. > > Stef > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
