Re: The future of my involvement with the Octave project

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

If every serious user of Octave contributed something like $50 per  
year for maintenance, I wonder how far that would go.  There are many  
commercial packages that charge a similar sum for maintenance, and  
they don't provide anything like the near-instant response that John &  
friends supply the Octave community.  I'd be willing to pay.

Geoff

On Oct 24, 2008, at 19:35, Joshua Stults wrote:

> John,
>
> Have you thought about a raising a round of funding from the
> community?  The Blender developers used the Rational Street Performer
> protocol (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp) to raise funds to open
> source their code.  Maybe the Octave community would be game to raise
> some money to keep you gainfully employed working on Octave (much to
> our collective benefit).
>
> You could even implement the calculations needed to figure out
> everyone's contribution in Octave!
>
> Best wishes (from a happy Octave user),
> Josh
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