On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:34, Matt Liotta wrote:
> > Community is important for open source development thats obvious - but
> > 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 decentoperating 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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