Nikolaus Rath dixit: >To cut a long story short, I am not convinced that by open sourcing my >code I am acquiring a moral obligation to take into account the >preferences of potential users in future versions - no matter how large
But that’s just the thing! You are! Of course, only in a way, and only morally, but if you want to ever have people building systems with blocks of yours again, you better do, or you lose credibility. Open Source is *not* about the code, or the licence. It’s about Free Users, and it’s a way of life, and this includes the way things are developed. (For example, many projects from larger companies aren’t; pcc doesn’t feel like it either, and, naming it explicitly because it’s different in a different way than what I mean with “projects from companies” above, MySQL sure as hell isn’t, either.) bye, //mirabilos -- > Wish I had pine to hand :-( I'll give lynx a try, thanks. Michael Schmitz on nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k a.k.a. {news.gmane.org/nntp}#news.gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k in pine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsm.4.64l.1310252236180.14...@herc.mirbsd.org
