Re: Comfortable Octave usage on Windows

[dbateman]

WMennerich wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> From all octave users, a certain percentage will give money to the
> Octave-project.
> With the number of octave users, also the probability to get donations for
> octave increases.
> Especially a big number of octave users in a company has the possibillity
> to organize donations for octave (using the argument to save money for
> Matlab-licences).
> If octave has an IDE/GUI, a higher number of users can use octave, i.e.
> these users, which are not familar with the comand line.
> Hence, an IDE/GUI for octave should increase money income for the octave
> project.
> Also the number of octave developers may increase.
> 
> Best, Wolfgang
> 

So we develop this feature for you with the "hope" of getting someone to pay
for the next feature we add? And what is the argument for the next feature?
--- "If you add feature X we promise we'll pay for feature Y" seems to be an
argument that leaves the developer of feature X screwed.... Octave has not
been able to draw a significant level of funding even though the statistics
show we have a few hundred thousand users, so I think its now we need to
draw the line if there is ever to be a significant financing of the
development of Octave. Funding the development of QtOctave seems a
reasonable place to start if that is the feature you want, though OctaveDE
seems to be more alive at this point.

D.


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