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toast76 on March 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kickstarter: rails.app

This is something that would be personally valuable for me. He could just as easily build this and sell it on the App Store; I'd buy it too. Instead I'll donate so you can get it for free.

Who says OSS has to be all about altruism and self-sacrifice?

Btw.. http://railsinstaller.org/ was funded by EngineYard... I'm not sure I see the difference?

aaronblohowiak on March 29, 2012 [–]

railsinstaller is windows only.

toast76 on March 29, 2012 | [–]

I meant "not sure I understand why people didn't get their knickers in a twist with railsinstaller" :)

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