Ben Bucksch wrote:
> If what you suspect is true, they didn't get the nature of open-source.
> It works over the internet. Meeting someone in person doesn't make him
> more trustworthy.
Here we're looking at pre-Internet mentalities versus post-Internet mentality.
It is, however, odd to see the pre-Internet mentality in a company like
Netscape. I don't totally fault them though. It's part of human nature to be
more trusting with those we're friends with.
> patch, Sun Ireland seems to be pissed off. (Finally, someone starts to
> care about Sun's latest patch, almost 5 months after the patch has been
> submitted. Note that is was substantional work of a whole team of
> developers.)
While it needs looked at, I'm not one to care about Sun as a whole getting
pissed off. Their JRE is a piece of crap. But it's not fair to take that out on
a few developers not related to it...
> >Some good proof is taking off from 0.9.2 rather than freezing the whole tree
> >(like leading up to 0.6).
> No. 6.0 came from the same branch that 6.0PR3 came from.
I was talking about 6.1 there.
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