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$41k isn't much, was split between two developers, and most every penny of that came from community donations. Maybe it's out of hobbyist status, but this is s
by agildehaus 13y ago
$41k isn't much, was split between two developers, and most every penny of that came from community donations.
Maybe it's out of hobbyist status, but this is still far far below how much Be spent developing BeOS each year.
- nknighthb 13y agoNobody is saying it's unreasonable amount or shouldn't have been spent, and I consider the money's origin utterly irrelevant. But it is not a trivial amount of money. Unless he moved recently, I believe Ingo Weinhold lives in Germany. His income for this year just from Haiku work exceeds the median German household income. I'm sure he's not working at market rate, but he could be said to be making a living off it. My one and only point is that you can't say Haiku is just a hobbyist OS. That's simply not a reasonable answer to the question of what its purpose is. It's just dismissive and insulting to the person who asked the question.
- agildehaus 13y agoI agreed with you that it's likely out of "hobbyist". But you said "way" out of hobbyist, and that's not true at all.