> You look at TW as a labor of love. > [...] > Apps get developed when there's money in it. It seems like a tension > exists in the open-source community because "profit" is made to be a > bad thing.
That's not correct. While there are some people in the FOSS community who regard making money as inherently evil, that doesn't apply to everyone, and it's certainly not true for most people in the TiddlyWiki community. I was actually taking a very pragmatic rather than an ideological view in my previous post. There are certainly scenarios where publishing the source code does not make sense for the developers (ESR explains such cases in CatB[1]) - it's just that people often tend to be overprotective, insisting on closed source when open source would actually be more effective/efficient (FWIW, my boss has published some thoughts and observations on this issue[2]). > the solution may be to focus on social engineering instead of software > engineering Seconded; as mentioned before, you seem to be focusing on the wrong issue. -- F. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar [2] http://tinyurl.com/5jzxjg (http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/10/21/learning-about-why-people-dont-adopt-opensource/) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
