Re: State of Beta 2

I had already committed $50/mo.

Robert Creager wrote:

>Once upon a time (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:26:05 -0700)
>Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> uttered something amazingly similar to:
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>>Robert Creager wrote:
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>>>Once upon a time (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:59:37 -0700)
>>>"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> uttered something amazingly similar
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>>>>If someone is willing to pony up 2000.00 per month for a period of at
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>>>Well, if you're willing to set up some sort of escrow, I'll put in $100. I
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>>Is that $100 times once, or $100 X 6mos anticiapated develop time.
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>That's $100 once. And last I looked, there are well over 1800 subscribers on
>this list alone. On the astronomically small chance everyone one of them did
>what I'm doing, it would cover more than 6 months of development time ;-) This
>strikes me as like supporting public radio. The individuals do some, and the
>corporations do a bunch.
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>I'm just putting my money toward a great product, rather than complaining that
>it's not done. Just like Joshua is doing. You cannot hire a competent
>programmer for $24k a year, so he is putting up some money on this also.
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>There have been a couple of other bytes from small businesses, so who knows!
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>You game?
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>Cheers,
>Rob
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