Re: The future of my involvement with the Octave project

[Dushan Mitrovich]

"Geoffrey S. Knauth" <address@hidden> wrote:
> If every serious user of Octave contributed something like $50 per
> year for maintenance, I wonder how far that would go.  There are many
> commercial packages that charge a similar sum for maintenance, and
> they don't provide anything like the near-instant response that John &
> friends supply the Octave community.  I'd be willing to pay.

I also would be glad to help support this.

- Dushan Mitrovich

> On Oct 24, 2008, at 19:35, Joshua Stults wrote:
>> Have you thought about a raising a round of funding from the
>> community?  The Blender developers used the Rational Street Performer
>> protocol (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp) to raise funds to open
>> source their code.  Maybe the Octave community would be game to raise
>> some money to keep you gainfully employed working on Octave (much to
>> our collective benefit).