On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:13:34AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
El Mon, 17-05-2010 a las 18:19 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió:On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> wrote:> "Done critically, creatively, and transparently, voluntary free > software projectsThere is a bit of misdirection in there. Projects are rarely defined as a "voluntary free software project". IMHE successful long term projects have diverse group of developers with diverse driving forces.+1024.Kernel development was once led entirely by volunteers and is now largely accomplished by employees of large corporates.What did never change throughout 15 years of successful kernel development is that developers come from a variety of industries, bringing wildly different ideas while trying to reach the most disparate objectives. No single entity controls Linux development exclusively, making it the de-facto industry standard for almost any new device being engineered.Before, the idea of a single kernel which could run on thousands of architectures ranging from tiny access points to supercomputers was simply unthinkable.Sugar needs to do the same: diversify its contributors by engaging volunteers, commercial entities, governments, non-profits, academic institutions... and of course deployments.Giving up centralized control is key to success in distributed development.
I wholeheartedly agree with all of above.My concern was one of transparency. Noone else has a concern about that apparently, which is (hopefully) comforting...
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