Joshua D. Drake wrote:
O.k. in all Bruce I like your article but I must admit it seems to take
a "The community is god" perspective and that we must all bend to the
will of said community.
The community could learn a great deal from adopting some of the more
common business practices when it comes to development as well.
In short, I guess I think it is important to recognize that both are
partners in the open source world and that to ignore one over the other
is destined to fail.
I think Bruce article is about painting a realistic picture for
companies who want to get involved. And the reality is that people tend
to be worried about company influence quite often and they do expect a
higher standard for patches coming from a (big) company. For individuals
they are more forgiving, but if an IBM engineer does a little mistake it
will produce a few (not necessarily open) snickers.
regards,
Lukas
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