[squeak-dev] Re: Funding

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Mon Apr 7 17:58:59 UTC 2008


Smalltalk is only a niche. And Squeak is a niche in the world of  
Smalltalk.
Furthermore, a great part of the Squeak community is academic.
I don't see a good chance of fund raising a noteworthy amount until
the Squeak community grows a lot and especially more companies
get interested in Squeak.

I really doubt that we can find many who like to throw money at Squeak  
without
being convinced to get something valuable back.
But it is hard to get new people interested in Smalltalk and Squeak.
And many of the newcomers get alienated by many aspects of Squeak:
	- it is hard to find documentation
	- it is hard to get used to Morphic (its power isn't obvious but its  
clutter is)
	- it is hard to find a Squeak version with not so many obvious bugs  
and problems

Andreas



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