From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T21:25:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

On 7/23/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 4:27 AM, Alex Young wrote:
>
> > Michael Hollins wrote:
> >> Alex Young wrote:
> >>> Then you've got software that's so important that the body behind
> >>> it can survive on donations (Mozilla and Apache, to the best of
> >>> my knowledge, work this way).
> >> I don't know about Apache, but I think you'll find that most of
> >> Mozilla's income comes from referral fees from Google. Apparently
> >> it's on the order of many tens of millions each year.
> > Well, there's another business model, then :-)
> >
> > --
> > Alex
> >
> MySQL does also sell commercial licenses required under certain
> circumstances.
> But you still failed to answer for the source of income of the
> independent developer.
Service, training, development of required features, which remain open
Source but are paid by somebody who really wants the feature, this all
pays better than development, maybe somebody can dig up some lines
about this because I would not take my word as granted either;).
But these are the base lines
> Model breaks.
Please ask questions about breaks on a HW mailing list or is this
about modeling breaks in Ruby ;)

Robert
-- 
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java.
I just didn't know it would be called Ruby
-- Kent Beck