On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 30.07.2009 um 23:32 schrieb Neil Aggarwal:
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private
That posting states: I heard some vague numbers, likely in the 4 digits EUR range per month but real figures are only known by one person.
For at least three years people were donating money and sponsors were paying for website ads while the money was not flowing into the project, where it went to I can only guess.
If this is true, it means the people donating to this project have been ripped off.
Can someone confirm this?
What - the statement on Dag's website or your assumption? ;-)
Rip-off is a harsh word. Ok, so I donated nothing so far, but still, this is a bit unfair to the rest of the team who are (now) scrambling to get their act together.
To be honest, I didn't feel as strong about the money from the past as I did about the money that was still being made when I found out about this. You cannot turn back time, but you can influence what is happening now. (And for all I know it could be about peanuts as well, as I stated I have no first-hand evidence of how much was being made)
That said, I would have been willing to consider the donated money as some sort of ransom to get the domain, trademark and logo rights back and use that as a new start for the project.
But of course you need Lance for any such deal and that's where I guess the Open Letter comes into play. But this was not the only reason to leave the team, if it was I would have left earlier.