> On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
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> > Stef,
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> > The revised language is much improved.
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> tx
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> >  I too am curious about what you have in mind on the conditions.
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> We do not know. :) just fuzzy ideas.
> We will decide with the community. Because the point is that this is not our stuff but a tool that should serve the community.
> We were thinking
> - individual memberships
> - company memberships
> - institution memberships
> or/and a moral license so that you can buy pharo and a guy like igor/esteban can get pay to improve the infrastructure.
> or a bounty (but a moral license is good since it does not bind the task).
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> >  Are you looking for support from institutions or individuals?  I assume both, but the thresholds would be different for UF than for me by myself.
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> Yes both. This would be excellent.
>
> Recently I was asking myself three essential questions beside having a market: ok we have a client so what
> - how do you control quality/process?
> - how do you control that your runtime engine is ok/safe/longlasting (else better take java vms there are plenty)
> - how do you reduce risk like truck factor in your community.
>
> Our main point is how can we minimize risk: I'm thinking to participate to a startup around a pharo software  and here is a simple
> simple scenario:  imagine that eliot gets hired by XXAS to do javascript/ruby whatever and andreas (which does not reply to my mails
> because I'm probably too insignificant) goes waco and that ian only shows up every three years instead of every year.
> do you think that it is wise for companies to invest in an open-source smalltalk?
> I would not. Now if we have a consortium, a build process, a quality process and one or two guys payed by the community
> to improve continously the system more than we can. Then this is a message I can understand as an investor.
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> Since we want to make sure that you all can do business we want to reduce risk and provide a good case for process, quality and the
> rest.
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> Stef
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> > Bill
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> > ________________________________________
> > From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse [[hidden email]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:00 AM
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> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Call for Pharo Support **important**
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