> > FWIW - I differ here - a prime motivator for writing open source is > "scratching your own itch"
I have no problem with scratching your own itch if it also has application to the greater community. For instance, I have been working on an Actionscript project that I wanted to get up on Ohloh. Ohloh did not support Actionscript or Mxml in their code analyzer. There was a ticket that was open for over 3 months, but no one had contributed. Since I wanted it, I setup ruby and git, checked out the source and a few hours later contributed Actionscript and Mxml support. This is a good example of where a selfish reason can have a beneficial effect on the greater community. At the same time since I had everything setup I contributed a few more patches that did not directly affect me. > > > Contributors look first to help the community and > > only in that way do they expect to be helping themselves. > > Communism failed! and open source is definitely as much about the > *individual* as the community. Open Source licenses always respect and > acknowledge the rights of the individual developers and contributors. > Looking first to help the community is bull! Yes, I am idealistic, maybe to a fault. In my mind, you have ask a lot of people to get a little. So, I ask people to be better than they normally would be in the hopes that we can all improve. With this in mind, I point you to a definition..."Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production.[1]". Now, if you had said "Altruism [2] failed" I might have listened a little harder to what you had to say. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
