> that
> is not a motive. why do people develop? They must get something for
> it.
> Weather it is to sit back and say "man thats a cool thing I helped
> make" to
> stick it to some corporation, to make tools that fill a need, or to
> prove to
> yourself or others that you can do something - those are reasons
> everyone has
> them. If your going to sit there and say you have no reasons for your
> project your full of it. Advertising, props, trying to fill a need,
> get
> free programmers, something - you have a reason everyone has a reason.
>
Certainly everyone has their own reasons for participating in open
source. However, the expectation that you can stop others from
benefitting from your work without personal recognition doesn't really
work. Whatever your reasons for participating in open source you have
to realize that others will benefit and never acknowledge your
contribution. Further, your original work could be forked and taken in
an entirely different direction then you planned leaving users of that
new direction unaware of your early contributions that made the work
possible in the first place.
> Hell, Linus started out - by himself - because he, one wanted to see
> if
> he could, and two have a decent��operating system to use (unix based
> desktop) - those are reasons and a community formed behind those
> reasons
> - not the other way around.
>
Actually, the story goes a little different. He started out writing a
terminal program and kept bolting on features until the point where he
decided to go all the way with the OS implementation. Read "Just For
Fun" and learn lots of interesting facts about Linus's past.
> I can open source anything I want for whatever reason I want.
>
Sure you can, but if you aren't willing to allow others to participate
even if their contributions are as small as hosting the project then
you aren't going to build much of a community behind your project. And
again, the successful open source projects have strong communities.
> Why is it silly.
>
Because there can be any number of reasons for why they rejected your
project. Assuming they rejected for a specific reason when you don't
know is not logical. Further, making the leap that they don't want it
to be part of another project is yet another assumption without facts
to back it up.
> Well good for you. You can now do it by downloading the source and
> adding it to your project.
>
Open source doesn't work that way. It is not about abandoning a work
and hoping others will finish where you left off. The idea is to get
others interested in a common goal such that together the goal could be
more easily achieved. If I were to put the source up on the site
without your participation then there will likely never be any progress
made.
-Matt
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