>> I have never heard of hiriing someone for development on a open
>> source project?
>
>Ah-h-h-h... I love innovation! :-)

Me too! I have some ideas that I am fine tuning that I have been working on
for over a year that I believe will strike a nice balance on this issue.

The main objective I see here is finding a way that all of the InterBase
VAR's that have built up a business around selling InterBase itself (not as
an embedded part of a larger product) will not get the rug pulled out from
under them. I would prefer to see a model that preserves all the benefits of
free open source to the developers while at the same time putting the VAR's
in a position to continue making money promoting and distributing InterBase.

I believe I have the answer to this dilema and will share it with you for
your input, etc. as soon as I get things ready. It's still a little rough
right now...

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

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