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> Ok, I understand the goal. Count me in.
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> El mié, 16-02-2011 a las 13:52 +0100, Stéphane Ducasse escribió:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>> To: [hidden email]
>>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Call for Pharo Support **important**
>>>
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