On Friday 07 January 2011 15:23:25 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 14:24 +0530, jtd wrote: > > Non contributions may or may not be large or damaging, but we are > > not going to convince each other without hard data. As it stands > > I think everbody has plenty of other stuff to do, but it would be > > good exercise. > > actually from my experience - and from discussions with others who > are developing projects, the 'improvements' made by people who take > the code and close the source and distribute without contributing > back are usually worthless,
I agree. The example of pptp. > so no great loss. But crappy code did cause a pita. So non contribituions not only resulted in no gain, but actually a loss to everybody. For the record i had a taste of M$ pptp while trying to get a pilot of major project off the ground. Needless to say the isp lost big time - 10000 connections - and the bank money and time. I was ofcourse paid, but getting things done and working is what interests me rather than just money. Circa 2003-4. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
