07-01-2003, 03:07 AM
pjnow,Jul 1 2003, 01:56 AM Wrote:I'm inclined to agree with Bolty's rant. I cannot imagine a business case for 1.10.It depends on how you look at it. Rather than repeat myself, though, I'll just point to the last time I wrote about it.
On the other hand, what's the fully burdened cost for a developer for a year? Once you add in payroll taxes, insurance and other overhead, it might cost a couple hundred thousand to have just one man-year of Isolde's time working on the patch. (Perhaps less, since I think that games developers work at a discount.) And how long has 1.10 been in the works and what other people have also worked on it? All told, it could total several hundred thousand dollars. Maybe someone decided that this wasn't a good investment.
-- CH