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Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:07:05 PST
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Project ?

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On Mon, 24 January 2000, Peter Skye wrote:

>
> Steven Levine wrote:
> >
> > >Did the Programming SIG ever come up with a "project"?
> >
> > I presented the idea of doing an "adopt-an-app" project.
> > However, so far the response has not been deafening.
>
> I can't think of an abandoned shareware app that I'd like to "adopt".

There's little motivation the programmer to totally
abandone a piece of shareware. Maybe to quit
updating and maintaining it,
but even then there may be someone
with a special need it fits.

>
>
> From a "Marketing" standpoint, you're going to have to use the "greed"
> factor -- "what's in it for me?" -- rather than a group effort on one
> particular app. Everybody picks one app they'd like to
> program/reprogram/modify and the Programming SIG can support the
> development of that member's app. We can supply the incentive to get
> them written. The members can sell the apps, they can public license
> them, they can hide them in the back of the refrigerator when they're
> done -- that's up to them.

For the above, again see Raymond.
It's really an economics book, he just never
mentions the 'E' word, for the
alledgedly 'dreary science'. :-)
>

> - Peter
>

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / dallasii@kincyb.com /
/ leganii@surfree.com

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