[Important Topic] Squeak Central position regarding SqueakFoundation

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Tue Jul 10 14:26:37 UTC 2001


On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:

> > I would like to have a Squeak Foundation with clear goal, money for hire
> > some good squeakers to help the community and I have the impression that
> > everything is stuck right now. Things should move, time is passing.
> 
> Is that the goal?  Even if so, is that a clear goal?
> 
> Help the community how?
> 
> I thought this was an open source project.  Why does Squeak require 
> money for this purpose?
> 
> Further, can we realistically expect to generate revenues sufficient to 
> pay salaries of even one, let alone some, good squeakers?

I'm very very very very very very cheap.

"Will squeak for internet access or food."

Now if you would *just* drop that "good" requirement, and settle for
"silly" :)

Hey..a few more posts and Jim will be completely corrupted!

Cheers,
Bijan "Obscure references" Parsia.





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