On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:31 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> So far as I can see the only way that major work has been done in/for Squeak
> is when someone is funding a sizeable project and it includes a subsystem
> that can be spun out for general use.

Financial backing is the way most projects get anything useful done.
How could it be otherwise.

>From http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6925891609.html :

   "Another interesting finding is that between 70 and 95 percent of
contributing developers are paid for their work. Indeed, Linux has
become something of a corporate beast over the years,"....