Ah, I see.  But do you think the number of developers using it is 
diminishing?  I would think it is currently on the rise.  At least for a 
while.


>From: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: 3.9 Oddities
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:11:01 -0400
>
>J J wrote:
>>>No tut-tut. Remember, we weren't vendors. You have to look at this (and 
>>>other decisions) in relation to the big fish we were trying to fry (which 
>>>was NOT to build a "free Smalltalk" even though that's what it 
>>>unfortunately degenerated to).
>>
>>Are you saying that squeak being open source/free is a bad thing?
>
>No, I'm saying that we failed to achieve what we were aiming for. Squeak 
>being open and free is a very good thing but I'd rather have a media 
>authoring tool used by a huge number of kids than a "free Smalltalk" used 
>by a diminishingly small number of programmers.
>
>Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>