> > I see a high probability of conflict between the OOS community and Xara. > Specifically, they are "managing" the the introduction of their code and > limiting the number of developers. This is not how OSS works... > > I detect the presence of flying monkeys dressed as salesmen and > lawyers... >
This sort of thing is not without precedence within the open source community. Note OpenOffice.org and it gradual path to OSS, with Sun now actually allowing developers freedom to use their own code elsewhere for the first time, and opening up a number of tiers of public CVS. Novell didn't open all of Hula straight away, and there are many example of small developers not opening up their code until they thought it was ready for development by a community. So, open source certainly has worked this way (for some projects) in the past, and will probably continue to. The openess of a development community and the openess of a license are two different things, but usaully intertwined. As another example, not just anyone can have write access to the main scribus CVS can they? -- -- Ben Green
