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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>
> > At best we can put into place some recommendations for the development 
> > of future dialogs.
>
> I think that would be a great basis to build upon.
>
> By the way, I also wonder why KiCad doesn't have more qualified
> contributors.

The pay is too low?


Linus, Andrew Morton, and company all get paid.

Linux Foundation . org

Open source always costs somebody something to write it.


> It may just be that there aren't that many people
> who are interested in hardware and that also happen to be great
> C++ programmers, or maybe only few of them care enough about
> Free software. But maybe those people are around and there's
> just something else that keeps them from contributing.
>
> I wonder how gEDA "the competition" is doing in this regard.
>
> - Werner

If there were many more developers, it would be harder to get along. I 
quit the last open source project that I was part of.

More developers ?

Or

More developer - hours?


I'm thinking the latter is better.

Dick