On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jason Nah<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not so much devastated but more disappointed. > I hate to say this but this kind of stunt puts a bad rap on the open source > community as a whole. No doubt he has every right to stop, but to pull the > plug without any continuity, migration is just a real shame. Just leaves > everybody hanging in the air. Worst still was the manner which it was done. > No warning. Nobody had a clue. > Imagine all those guys who were using the libraries he wrote. How about the > 'Enterprise' systems that might also be using the libraries he wrote. As > awesome as his work is, he didn't really leave on a good note. > Raises a bigger issue about open source projects and the 'bus' number they > carry. Certainly makes me think twice before I use a library written by one > guy.
Your feeling of "disappointment" is probably due to a small misunderstanding and a problem of perspective. A community or society is simply a collection of _individuals_ who organise around some shared interest or purpose. The roro community is the people on this list, our society is the names in the whitepages. A community is not a living organism, it cannot feel shame, it doesn't make any sense to feel empathy for something that is not alive. With regards to the business value of open source, you can't loose something you never had. Tony Bowden puts this quite nicely here: http://nothing.tmtm.com/2009/08/goodbye-_why/. Hopefully now you can put that pesky disappointment aside and get on with some healthy devastation. -- Myles --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
