On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:26:13 PM UTC-4, Rick Waldron wrote: > > This morning I had a chance to ask Doug, in person, to clarify what he > meant by his statements about forking Node—as it turns out, his motivations > aren't sinister, nor are they really outrageous. > > Historically, Yahoo forks technologies that it relies heavily on, eg. Unix > and Apache. This allows them to iterate at their own pace and add features > they want, when they want them and exclusively to meet their own internal > or product based needs. As he explained to me, he simply meant that if he > was asked to be the CEO of Yahoo, he would add Node to the technologies > that Yahoo maintains its own fork of. Doug also noted that in this > hypothetical scenario, the "YNode" code would be released as an open-source > project (unlike forks of other technologies at Yahoo) > > > Seems like way less of a big deal when you actually check sources... > weird, right? >
I'm not sure what was clarified. This still seems like an entirely wide open topic. Aside from "doing it under Yahoo's umbrella," I can't read a single thing different that Crock would do. So, it's still open hunting season all! Game on! -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
