On 15/10/14 17:30, Steve Litt wrote:
Pre-cisely. I see Red Hat's fingerprints all over that unmaintained
status. If not for Red Hat, somebody would have picked up ConsoleKit.
After all, as shown in
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-linux ,
there's plenty of money floating around to pay for free software
development.
A question for you:
Which funder of free software development do you believe would
realistically stand to make a measurably-greater-than-unity return on
investment (either in "reasonably foreseeable losses averted" or
"reasonably foreseeable new profits obtained") by choosing to underwrite
(or assign employees to) resumed development of ConsoleKit?
I have a couple of observations which I think may be relevant:
* The set of people hostile to systemd seems to include a lot of people
who don't see much need for the likes of ConsoleKit either.
* ConsoleKit isn't, in terms of its size, particularly intimidating; the
actual C source code is only about 20% larger than the
autotools-associated shell scripts.
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