On Tuesday 13 March 2007 18:52:46 Christopher Williams wrote: > We have no ability to employ full-time developers, nor do > we really have any donations coming in to support augmentation of our work.
Have you considered contacting Aptana? Now that they took over RadRails, they might be interested in keeping RDT alive.. or IBM should donate something, I'm sure they don't want to capitulate before Sun and NetBeans! > So, I've decided to pursue a commercial fork of RDT and RadRails. Certianly > the aim of the project will be to make a profit, but also to help drive RDT > forward so that we are not left behind. What pricing model do you have in mind? Something like Textmate? I'm a linux user so I don't find the idea of buying software very appealing, but if you look at Textmate's success, that might actually work on other platforms. > So I'm striving to stroke a good balance between the two. > Clearly, bug fixes would be contributed to RDT. Major new code > infrastructure would as well. And if the project takes off, I'd like to > support a more cohesive set of websites/trac/etc for the project. And you would work on Ruby Red alone or do you plan to 'hire' more devs? Regards Mirko
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