Hi Patrick, On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:17:57PM -0500, Patrick wrote:
Hi Johannes
Thanks very much for your feedback. I am sure that my business plan will need tweaking but I am also really pretty confident about it. I have spoken with many people working in labs about it and they are really excited about open source. At the end of the day my own business could save 10K a year if I just did not have to buy software and if my project failed to make money but helped those researching diseases and such, that really would not be a loss.
It's a good start if you already have a customer.
" estimate about 1.5 staff years for a pretty experienced programmer"
Whoa! I had no idea there was that much work left to me done with CSS. Would this much code change Dillo fundamentally? Are there many features that would not be required most of the time, are there many obscure features.
Well, it depends on what you call obscure... There is the whole absolute positioning thing, then there is floats, background images and a lot of tiny details. Just browse through the CSS 2.1 spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/
I guess it's just a philosophical issue but I am not attracted to large-large projects, small is beautiful. 50K lines of code will take me a long time to understand but it is within the realm of possibilities. I don't think anyone understands all of webkit
No need to explain this to me. I use and work on dillo for similar reasons :-) My point was just that * completing full CSS 2.1 support * adding JavaScript * developing your own framework based on that are all very ambitious projects on their own. Cheers, Johannes