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.

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