[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNE SUPPORT
- From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:54:38 -0500 (EST)
Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
As much as we might all hate to admit it, we're going to have to admit
it--without Glenn, Ray, Joe and the mere handful of others who have
been part of the Arachne "development mob" we have indeed reached
the end of the line.
As Udo pointed out there hasn't been anything but bug fixes and
minor tweakings for years anyway.
There is no money to hire anyone. No volunteers to continue
development work. Just a rag tag group of 59 mostly swiftly
aging "dosasaurs"
End of the line.
Sam Ewalt
On Sun, December 7, 2008 9:53 am, L.D. Best wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Hiring someone to work on Arachne?????
>
> 1. I believe that everyone on the list is a working stiff, or in forced
> retirement (ce' moi).
>
> 2. AFAIK, none have won the lottery.
>
> 3. Where might one go hunting for a competent C programmer (afaik it
> must be one flavor or another of Borland C?), who is also fluent in DOS
> and wouldn't consider us crazy for asking in the first place ... or else
> a bunch of suckers to be bled dry while promises are more prevalent than
> alphabet versions of a new Arachne build?
>
> 4. Simply because people have sacrificed time, sleep, other projects,
> co-worker invitations to go out .... etc etc and so forth .... does not
> mean any of us could sacrifice to the extend of hiring someone.
>
> 5. Although mention was made of other persons who might be interested
> in keeping the Arachne project going, smaller work groups usually work
> better and too many cooks spoil the broth and too many contributors can
> only mean too many non-parallel expectations/time lines/perceive
> requirements. (IOW, any person would be insane to work for ten people
> -- let alone 20 or 30 or 50 or 100; contributors would not be a
> "company" nor even a "development group" ... no board of directors, no
> CEO or CIO or TIO or MVSP to narrow requirements and reporting targets.
>
> 6. Last, but not least, throwing money at a problem seldom solves it
> ... unless the problem is with IRS.
>
> The foregoing is -- as always! -- IMNSHO
>
> l.d.
> Arachne at FreeLists
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>
>
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