2009/4/8 Simon Roe <[email protected]>: > Open source, in this case, made no difference, because the council a) > didn't talk to other councils and b) just paid someone else to do > everything for them. I don't think they even had access to their > branch, but even if they did it wouldn't have meant anything.
That's a sorry tale. Releasing something under an open source licence doesn't guarantee good quality code nor that a sound development community will spring up around a particular project. Indeed, Sourceforge is evidence that most projects only ever have a single contributor and never really get off the ground. However, it does mean that there is the possibility that other people could reuse and modify the project which wouldn't exist otherwise. If that's going to happen, the councils concerned or a third party will have to take on a project-leading role and start using the tools and practices of open source development, not just the licences. -- Adrian Short http://adrianshort.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/adrianshort _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
