From: Yohanes Santoso Date: 2002-06-26T02:38:01+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby cookbook Yohanes Santoso writes: > Any update on the availability of the site? I miss it a lot. > > YS. Another thing, if the main problem for the downtime is because of cost issue, then I think some people will be quite willing to donate for the upkeeping of the site. I know I would. Which bring another issue: I'm sure that maintaining rubygarden is not cheap either and Dave has been kind enough to provide us with a gratis service (a great one too). Oh sure, we buy his book and he gets his royalties, but I don't feel right because his royalties is for his originality and efforts on his book, not for giving us gratis services (which has has been providing for at least 2 years, or more?) So, has Ruby become big enough to require some sort of foundation for supporting its developers? Perhaps Ruby Foundation, following the trend of the Perl Foundation. Perhaps it will perform what Perl foundation did during its inception: collecting and distributing donation. YS.