Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef op 29-4-2014 12:18:
2014-04-29 12:06 GMT+02:00 Vincent van Ravesteijn:OSS is not what it used to be. Most projects have ways of making money, or are supported by companies. Git's maintainer is hired by Google, major work on Git is done by GitHub people, KDE has a large investor that allows them to hire developers, and so forth..Maybe this applies to big projects, but I fail to see how it applies to LyX.
LyX is rather big IMO ;)..
Also, there are surely different interests amongst coders. Some developers might have ambitions to code on a professional basis and thus be "hired", ideally for their pet projects. I certainly don't. I get the money to pay my rent otherwise, so I am not interested in any commercial programming.
Yes, luckily people differ. I only wanted to say that I felt like we are the exception, but I didn't mean to say we should do it different, or that I want it to be different. I also said it in a proud way that we are just "amateurs" ;) ...
It would be nice though if someone would invest such that bigger features could be added to LyX, but I'm personally not looking forward to work on LyX full time as a day-job for ever.
Vincent
