Hi Stef,

thanks for your words. But just to clear one point: I've got just a 
part-time company and the system I'm developing is just for fun and 
based on my interests in requirements engineering and smalltalk. 
Everything I produce will be open source. You can read more about it at 
http://www.tideland.biz and http://wiki.tideland.biz. One idea is to 
perhaps generate some revenue later based on my platform. We'll see.

Squeak is a really powerful system without the complexity. I love it, 
because it lets you produce very good stuff in a real fast way. And my 
resources are limited.

So I enjoy the decisions of the last days. And I'll try to support it 
if I can.

mue

PS: Yip, www.seaside.st is cool, as Seaside is.

Am 16.02.2005 um 17:11 schrieb stéphane ducasse:

> hi frank
>
> Frank I can tell you that we are really concerned about making sure 
> that people can make money with squeak.... Adrian has a company with 9 
> people developing partly in squeak and this is important for him,
> and I'm sure that other people are also relying on squeak. Our goal 
> (if you read the roadmap for 3.9)
> was to offer a better environment for developers (refactorings all the 
> way down, better tools, completion,........).
> So what I suggest to you is not to be worried. I think that goran and 
> his crew will do a good job.
>
> What should worries you is that important fixes and changes to improve 
> the system gets stuck
> because nobody cares.
>
> With the SqF what we are trying to do is to have a real good web site 
> so that clients of your company can go and get insured that squeak is 
> not a toy. Because adrian got the problem that he cannot tell to his 
> clients
> that it is developed in Squeak. The seaside web site is part of this 
> overall effort that I'm pushing to get Squeak and seaside a better 
> look. And I think that www.seaside.st has a cool look. Isn't it?
>
> Stef

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