> I thought this was an open source project.  Why
> does Squeak require money for this purpose?

Because money is the fuel that makes the engine run?  A number of Squeakers
work in education, are Smalltalk consultants, or were employed in other
capacity to work with Squeak.  But not everyone is in that position.  For
example, Tim Rowledge CAN polish the jitter, and put it into suitable form
for distribution with Squeak, but he needs to make a living, too.

Squeak is open source, but not under GPL.  The license requirement is that
modifications of the VM or distribution classes be (re-)distributed under
the terms of the Squeak license.  Nothing prevents anyone from producing
closed-source, proprietary, commercial applications using Squeak.  This kind
of license incents people to improve the public distribution while producing
revenue generating programs.

	--- Noel