On Sep 18, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
Stephane,
This mail is in part a personal disclaimer and in part "a suggestion".
In my case I'm chasing a big customer prospect (took longer than expected but we're almost there),
cool I cross my fingers for you :)
at the beginning of this year we decided to use Pharo as the backend technology. But I already work as a full time Smalltalk PM+Developer and I don't have more than a few hours per week to dedicate to develop the core business of our project (which also has an Android client that also absorbs a lot of time).
I see and I understand.
Being part of a loyal user base that promotes Pharo on every chance is important,
Yes that too :)
maybe not as important as pushing code/docs back to the community, or paying a yearly fee.
But I think that the user base, as humble or small as it might be, _must not be disregarded_.
Did we ever give this impression? I hope not.
Today the overlap between the user base and the contributors is big, but I wouldn't see an small overlap as a bad thing. In fact it would be a good thing!
Nobody would claim that Wikipedia is a failure because 99.98% of the readers never edit. On the other hand Business model/Funding is a WHOLE different story.
Indeed. Still my question remains valid :). Stef