[Bluej-discuss] Open Source

[Lon Levy]

Maybe my experience is atypical, but I have had timely responses from the BlueJ team on critical issues and reasonable responses on everything else.  I have submitted bug reports in the past and these have been handled appropriately.  There are plenty of commercial software houses that are no more responsive than the BlueJ team and a few that I won't mention which could learn to be as good.  If you need rapid turn-around, do hire a programmer or contract a firm to do what you need.  The current model is ideal for me and my students.  Again, my thanks to the BlueJ team.

Lon.

Lon Levy, MS-CSEd
Computer Science Teacher
Volunteer Computer Club Advisor
Oregon High School
608-835-1316
 
Lon.Levy at oregonsd.org
LXL at oregon.k12.wi.us
cs at levytree.net

non somnos requiem


>>> Henk Schotel <h.schotel at wanadoo.nl> 11/16/2007 4:19 AM >>>
To conclude this discussion /-: the dev team should start asking  
money for BlueJ,
it will enable them to respond faster to requests or bug reports by  
hiring people.
I suggest a price of US$10 for individual users, which is cheap  
(especially in EU countries).