Re: State of Beta (2)

Sounds good to me. I can throw in $500 to start.

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  O.k. here are my thoughts on how this could work:
>
>  Command Prompt will set up an escrow account online at www.escrow.com.
>  When the Escrow account totals 2000.00 and is released, Command
> Prompt will dedicate a
>  programmer for one month to debugging, documenting, reviewing,
> digging, crying,
>  screaming, begging and bleeding with the code. At the end of the
> month and probably during
>  depending on how everything goes Command Prompt will release its
> findings.  The findings
>  will include a project plan on moving forward over the next 5 months
> (if that is what it takes) to
>  produce the first functional pg_upgrade.
>
>  If the project is deemed as moving in the right direction by the
> community members and specifically
>  the core members we will setup milestone payments for the project.
>
>   What does everyone think?
>
>   Sincerely,
>
>   Joshua D. Drake
>
> Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
>> I had already committed $50/mo.
>>
>> Robert Creager wrote:
>>
>>> Once upon a time (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:26:05 -0700)
>>> Dennis Gearon <gearond@fireserve.net> uttered something amazingly
>>> similar to:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Robert Creager wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Once upon a time (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:59:37 -0700)
>>>>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> uttered something
>>>>> amazingly similar
>>>>> to:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> If someone is willing to pony up 2000.00 per month for a period
>>>>>> of at
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, if you're willing to set up some sort of escrow, I'll put in
>>>>> $100.  I
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is that $100 times once, or $100 X 6mos anticiapated develop time.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> There have been a couple of other bytes from small businesses, so
>>> who knows!
>>>
>>> You game?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
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