On 10/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I am coming from experience that some projects die because people > can no longer afford to keep coding. >
I don't agree at all with that when 1 coder or more start to work on OSS project(s) it's because first they have a need, an itch and they will always find time to code it sure founding can be nice but it's not what gonna make a project live or die, it's about the coder(s) behind it as bob said, providing feeback, bug reports etc. is FAR more valuable + > It would be nice if the Open Source World was known as a good > place to be where people care for one another but the reality is > is there are lots of very harsh nasty people in > open source that have no intention on helping others they do it > for tottally different reasons. If you would like proof just hang > around some open source project irc channels. You will see > what I mean. who cares ? at the second where a coder start a code project, even if he got the logic to share it with others going open source, the coder do it for himself first, because he got a need, an itch. it's an old problem "ouh I'm doing an OSS project, I poured a lot of time and effort into it, I did it without being paid, blah blah blah what if a bad/nasty company/personn just take my work and use it for free ? and fork it ? and earn a lot of money with it ?" you just don't care ! the real reward in OSS is for yourself, to obtain something that fill your needs all the other stuff people using it, people helping you to do it, whatever... this is just bonus, side effects not requirements... zwetan _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
