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Rob seemed distressed that people (including myself) didn't understand how much money he was actually asking for. I seem to remember a lot of people, in just a few short days, saying they'd love to contribute.

Well, perhaps we did not realize at first the effort was estimated at about 6 man-months or so, or did not do out arithmetic afterwards...

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What got me down were all of the "conditions" put on some people's money demanding such and such features. But I guess that's understandable too. Maybe we're spoiled getting all those Hijack, Jemplode, emphatic, Logoedit, empegface, Palitir, etc, updates for free.

Yes, and many people said "well, 2.0 final is good enough". But I think that Rob is right that three years ago he would have no trouble collecting enough "sponsorships" to work on this full time.
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