As a final thought, perhaps this incident will galvanise the 'community' to be a bit more active. <G>
Regards Bill ----- "Robert Neuschul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David > > As another OSS developer, may I say: Well said! > > It's also worth pointing out that even if the developers of OF and the > > domain [and even this group] vanished completely and forever tomorrow > > users /still/ have the source /and/ they can band together on their > own > [via Sourceforge or w.h.y.] to provide mutual support and possibly > even > continue the development. > That's the whole point of OSS; one need only look to the history of a > > wide range of OSS projects over the years to see how they have forked > > and merged and extended over time as people came and went or as views > > on the future direction diverged to see that the absence of > individuals > or of the original dev group need not be a terminal event; if a > project > is worth supporting and useful others will usually step forward and > carry it on. > > Robert. _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
