From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-02-25T06:11:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Feldt" <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement....


> Ps. David: Great news about the non-profit org. I guess things haven't
> really taken form yet but do you also plan to sponsor Ruby projects? I
> should be looking for a job soon so if you have a bag of money... :-)

Ha! Good idea, Robert, but stand in line. ;)

Seriously, I think it will be a long time before
this sort of thing happens. (Prove me wrong, please!!)

But here's another idea I've thought of.

There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
piece of software but didn't want to write it myself.

I have wished that I could give someone "x" dollars to
do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).

Of course, the hourly rate might not come to what a
programmer usually makes. But look at all the work
that people do for free. :)

In any case, I wouldn't be opposed to a little 
bulletin board where people could swap small amounts
of money for small amounts of work.

Hal