> > However, it's seems that i'm not able to explain myselft: i'm not > challenging your interface design. If someone would have proposed the > other way around, delete scidvspc code and replace it with scid code, i > would have been equally upset. > Many people today use free software, like Linux or Firefox just because > it's free. But free software is not about money, it's about freedom and > community. People who freely donate their time and skills for a common > goal. Even small contributors, who fix a bug, provide an icon or made > some translation, feels proud about it because they became part of the > community and give something useful back to the other. You don't throw > away their efforts for no reason. > I've mentioned Firefox and let me use it as a perfect example. Firefox > was a fork of the Mozilla suite (with mail, calendar, etc), and many > people that use Firefox don't even know that the Mozilla suite exists. > But even today, if you want and you are a little bit nostalgic or > masochist, you can still download and use the Mozilla suite. > And this is another important thing of free software: the freedom of choice.
Ok, may be everthing is a misunderstanding? Steve proposes to let (what right now is called) scid live on forever, frozen in the source tree, clearly tagged as scid-4.(whatever). There can and should be a pointer to exactly that release on the homepage, together with instructions how to revive that version, so that whoever feels like can fork it and let it live on. Nothing is deleted, nothing removed. Exactly like the Mozilla case. What happens in the source tree is kind of brute force patching. scidvspc is imported as, for the moment, the more mature or more alive product and will be called scid from now on. Afterwards the community will join forces work on one product. Given the size of the active workforce in recent years that can only be a good thing for scid as the idea of a powerful opensource chess db. Using your Mozilla analogy I can not any longer see the problem. Just my 2c as a user. Detlef > > In short: > - merging two projects, taking the best from both to have a better > common project is good. > - if the merge is technically too complicated, having both live > separated is good. > - deleting a free project without reason is bad. > > I hope we can all agree to this. > Bye, > Fulvio > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
