On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:03:39PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> But cost and risk dumped on the community not the people
proposing the idea.
There was no risk, since it was explitcitly unofficial.
There is always risk including the risk you mis-estimated the cost
> > It may be done otherwise, sure, it is free software, but I
still
> > think that it would be much less cost-effective.
>
> Perhaps.. but the sooner you go do it the sooner it happens.
If the cost is higher, it may never happen.
Which any economist would I think take as fairly conclusive evidence there
is insufficient demand. Especially as the "cost" is a corner of someones ftp
site (probably free) [1], a bit of developers disk and machine time (basically
free nowdays) and developers own time.
Alan
[1] Seriously show me five people planning to contribute to this and I'm happy
to sort out a corner in ftp.linux.org.uk.