Zenon Jordan wrote:

> Pieter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > Allen Baur wrote:
> >
> > > If only it were actually simple. How, exactly, do you propose
> > > these new folks get paid ;-)?
> > 
> > Well at least don't charge them if they want to receive the next
> > official version (*).
> > 
> > [snipped the irrelevant bad experience part] 
> 
> I am sorry, but I can't see how your bad experiences are relevant in
> the context of Allen's post?

I was aiming at the "how ... folks get paid" part from Allen's post.


I'm aware that the "bad experience" I described happened a long time
ago in a totally different world and amounts of work/money involved.


What I was thinking about is that there might be some developers here
who might be interested in helping to develop a new compiler and have
the acquired knowledge (JFTR I'm not one of them).


Some of them might be willing to do that for "free", either just as a
hobby or thinking that "the costs" (read: time) may be better spent on
helping EMBT than on switching to another Language / Framework / IDE /
Compiler.


The point was: If there are some here who qualify and can add a
substantional amount of work/time in to that project ... don't charge
them for the next release containing (parts of) their work.


Not that I really think something like this will ever happen ...


.... but OTOH, you never know.


-- 
Pieter


"Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and
 education."
 -- Braham Flexner