Re: [Camelbones-devel] Good news

[Matt S. <ma...@se...>]

Congrats Sherm - great news!

Sherm Pendley wrote:
> I've found a job! Yay!
>
> I think this will be good news for CamelBones. One major difficulty
> I've been having in the past few years has been trying to justify, in
> my own mind at least, the idea of spending time working on a free
> project when I had no income. I've had all the time in the world to
> spend on CamelBones, but I couldn't use it effectively because of that
> doubt. Whenever I *did* try to work on it, I couldn't shake the
> nagging thought that I was being irresponsible in doing so, and should
> be spending my time trying to make a living instead.
>
> So, even though being employed means having far fewer hours available
> for CamelBones work, it also means that those hours should be guilt-
> and distraction-free, and much more effective as a result.
>
> Further, being employed means being able to invest in a real Mac made
> by Apple some time soon, so I'll be able to develop for Lion as soon
> as it's released. I might even be able to buy a paid ADC account, or
> at least obtain seed access, to develop&  test against Lion
> pre-releases. My contacts @ Apple were quite generous in giving me
> access to OS pre-releases in the past - although I haven't asked for
> them since the Intel switch, since they obviously wouldn't run on a
> Hackintosh. CamelBones support for a new OS version on the day of its
> release would be quite an improvement, I think. :-)
>
> sherm--
>
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