On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 08:17, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Anyone tried FogBugz, Joel Spolsky's baby? I'm so curious... although it's
>> commercial software, who knows, you might get a discount or even a freebie.
>
> The historical position has been that absolutely nothing goes into the
> WMF software pool unless it is open source.
I deeply agree that.
> However, my recollection is based on discussions years ago. On
> searching, I couldn't find any policy forbidding closed source
> software (is there one?). So, it is possible that closed source might
> be looked on as a more acceptable possibility for some functions now
> (though I wouldn't bet on it).
Wouldn't be nice. First, it's an attitude thing: we want (and have to)
promote open stuff.
Second, it isn't nice to show something to the users they cannot use
themselves. It's kind of against or basic principle of "you can do
what we do, you're free to do it, we just do it better" :-)
--
byte-byte,
grin
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