On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:36:10AM +0100, Ge van Geldorp wrote:
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
what is my incentive to do that?
Ehm, perhaps because it's fun? There must be something with opensource that makes all those volunteers want to contribute.
yes - that and being part of something bigger than they are.
... trouble with that is that both Wine and Samba are small parts of a much larger picture that not many people understand or appreciate.
i've endeavoured to give you a glimpse of that picture.
Were you asking for funding as many times on the samba mailing lists as on the wine mailing lists? If so, I can begin to understand why they banned you, it gets _really_ annoying.
dear ge,
it is not my intent to annoy.
i spent nearly four years working on samba: it _was_ fun (up until 2000), and there was enough incentive in the work i was doing for security companies (ISS) and other interested parties (people who needed samba to be a PDC) to employ me to continue to research the area i was interested in.
that time is now over: so i am therefore focussing on other areas where there may be interest in funding such development.
i thank you for your time: when i have enough spare time and money or if someone comes forward to provide sponsorship i will provide you with all the patches in the world.
l.