Joseph Halleck wrote:
If you could get donations like this for your GPL project would you say no to the food money to feed the developers when there was this much interest in the project?
I'd pay my devs more then enough so that they would never need to ask for donations... after all, I have heaps of money, and this project is going to get me heaps more.
I just don't understand what some people hate so so much about earning money. Eg. If a single small 120 x 120px ad was put on the Joomla home page, at least one of the Joomla core team could have quit their day jobs and spent the time on Joomla instead... perhaps we'd be at Joomla 1.6 or Joomla 2.0 by now.
Instead, they reject that and hold back development instead.
See the Magento project and how much they've gotten done in such a very very short period of time. It's taken them less then a year to be better then 10yr old open source commerce carts. How? They have well paid full time developers.
RW is backed by RT, a commercial company. If the commercial company can't afford to pay the devs more, create partnerships, get more backers on board. My calculations tell me though, that RT has more then enough funds to fund RokBridge, Jfusion, and a heap of other projects and still rake in gigantic profits.