On Tuesday 17 May 2011 03:19 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > > The hope isn't really that they don't "kill it or make it closed > source" (after all, forking is the great thing about FLOSS), but that > they continue funding its development. Unless we get into the terrain > of software patents, how would a company that closes down a project > its acquired managed to kill off that project's community-based fork? >
While forking is often the way out (Libre Office, Adempiere and so on), it causes confusion among its users. And then we have to resort to stop using/advocating the product and start with the new forked product. While this is pretty common these days, the users generally have issues with this. Especially, the non techies who are most critical to drive adoption rates up. --Venkat _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
