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Yes that's the problem with open source - someone has to do a whole lot
of work for very little money. I reckon a more appropriate software development
model is "almost free" software (very cheap licenses) or maybe dual
licensing. Except for some very major projects (like of the size and popularity of
Linux or MySQL) where there is the huge potential for
a lot of associated consulting money coming in then I think open source isn't
financially viable. It's viable in a lot of other ways but it's not financially
viable. Open Source is a nice idea but intelligent, funny, stable, single (the
qualities needed by a programmer to develop significant software but also coincidently
the same qualities girls like!) males who may have always had a lot of spare time
and no mortgage end up getting girlfriends and then they get married and then get
mortgages and kids and suddenly they have to work on commercial products during
the day to bring in money and any after hours spare time they may have had for
open source goes out the door as they play dad and become soccer coaches or
play ball in the park or teach their kids to ride a bike or swim etc., unless
of course they pretend they just don't have a family. (Now there's an idea....
no, stop it!) Subject: Re: [swfmill] my status on this project Sad to hear that but I hope you don't give it up
completely. SWFMill has become a major part in the development chain for my
Flash Projects as I'm trying to use FMES (FDT MTASC Eclipse SWFMIll that is
;) ) whenever the job allows me and I'm sure that counts for pretty many
other people. AFAIK there is no other tool so far that could replace
SWFMill so I hope that either you or any other able programmer will care
about it in future. Either way good luck with future jobs! Sascha |
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