Just to underscore this point, after seeing these posts I decided to 
take a stab at the opensource developer model. I downloaded the source, 
downloaded various mingw/msys components, even tried a cygwin variant. 
Can't get it to compile... I may try a linux OS running through that new 
VM Player. I think it would handle dependencies for me... sorry I am new 
to all of this...

And then even though it didn't compile, I did a search for all of the 
CurveTo chunks of code. I can see them. I can sort of understand what 
they do. But writing that kind of code... I'm afraid I'd miss an 
asterisk somewhere!

As for the finances, if I had a financially viable project running that 
used swfmill in some way, then I would contribute. Currently looking at 
that CurveTo for some ideas...

Thanks Dan for making it possible!

Michael

Mark Winterhalder wrote:
> well, the stereotypical lone hacker scenario isn't what drives most
> open source projects. many contributions are actually made by normal
> employees on company time who extend the functionality because they
> need it to make the software usable for their purpose, or who need a
> bug fixed. afaik, swfmill has received or two third party patches. i
> know that's not much, but many of its users, like myself, simply don't
> know c++/xslt.

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