At some point during the election I made a joke of the gazillion dollar
comments.  I did that because I thought it was funny, and never did I
believe that it was a serious comment.  I do think that we could use more
corporate sponsorship and would like to see some contributors paid for their
work.  (We do see that now with some of the development in Croquet, Sophie
and OLPC ...)  If I added to the fire by my joke and if anyone took that as
serious criticism I apologize.  We have a terrific community and our members
deserve many accolades to go with the gazillion dollars I wish we had to
show our thanks.

Ron Teitelbaum

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Craig Latta
>  
>  
>  Hi Ivan--
>  
>  > Correct me if I am wrong, but the original was not about the people
>  > who were developing Squeak. It was about Squeak as such, not the good
>  > or bad will of the people who selflessly work on it.
>  
>       Actually, I think the comment that "the maintainer of the main VM
>  code publically stated he will do shit unless someone pays him" is
>  pretty clearly a personal attack.
>  
>  
>  -C
>  
>  --
>  Craig Latta
>  improvisational musical informaticist
>  www.netjam.org
>  Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
>