Mark Norton wrote:
> No Chip, you haven't but in the case of SS, those "not rich at all"
> folks are getting precisely nothing as I understand it. That's one
> distribution which is heavily skewed.
Actually, you got PLENTY and it was spelled out in black and
white. You, and everyone else, has had unfettered access to the
code that drives SB *and that will never go away*. That's what
we all got. Spend 2 minutes (or 2 months, like I did) with a
closed box, like the MP101 and see what it's like.
What it means is that if LT really screws up, coordinated
individuals can *take it elsewhere*. Cripes, there are PLENTY
of OS projects (like Mambo, for instance) where some of the
original developers don't like the direction of the New Bosses
and set up camp in a different place. I presume that LT would
prefer to avoid this.
> It will be interesting to see if Logitech can actually cope with the
> informal structure and slightly anarchic environment of Open
> Source/GPL.
I agree. But dumber companies have done it. I can't imagine
that LT'd throw $20m (and far, far more in time/resources in
the future) just cut the golden egg out of the goose.
Even withOUT Sean, Dan, et al, there are plenty of coders among
us (us...har, like I'm one) to keep our SBs hopping through
circus rings until they physically break.
I'm not worried, frankly.
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