From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA03671 for caml-red; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:42:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA20221 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:31:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (jimbo204.zip.com.au [202.7.88.204]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f1BFV5n23240; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:31:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA13341; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 02:26:37 +1100 Message-ID: <3A86AF2C.9CE172C8@ozemail.com.au> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 02:26:36 +1100 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel de Rauglaudre CC: Markus Mottl , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: R: Consortium Caml References: <000201c090f4$0f5013a0$18ab6ed4@alex> <20010208014519.A13836@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> <20010209154550.7ba53a91.fleutotf@esiee.fr> <20010209172223.A28842@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> <20010210205617.G16265@verdot.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > The Consortium is for companies: for people who make strategic decisions > like using the language. It is not for individuals: as an individual, of > course, you don't care that OCaml stops. But if you are the boss of a big > company and decide to use it, it can be terrible if it no more supported. As an individual I _do_ care if Ocaml stops, since I have invested considerable amounts of _my_ time and effort into it, whereas companies have the resources to amortise risk, and the 'big boss' didn't invest his money, and will still get paid his salary. I only have one short life, and I have a vested interest in Ocaml succeeding commercially that is far more important to me than a small change in profits of some company. This interest is not merely to obtain money from work, but also to contribute to better practice, so I can feel my life is worthwhile. Therefore, it would be useful if I could register that interest, even if my financial contribution is small compared to a large company: ultimately, Ocaml programs have to be written by people. A Consortium may benefit from having both corporate members and individuals, for example companies may be able to get more code more cheaply from a pool of individuals who would be grateful for _some_ funding for work they might well have done anyhow. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net