It can, but only if the fork has enough developers working on it instead of the original - and that's the trickiest part
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Argent Stonecutter <secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Starting a fork can light a fire under a parochial developer team. It worked > for GCC with EGCS. > > > On 2010-04-02, at 10:49, Gareth Nelson wrote: > >> It's a lot of work to maintain, trust me - anyway, it'd be better to >> convince the opensim team to allow viewer developers in. >> >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Argent Stonecutter >> <secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Sounds like an "impure opensim" fork is needed. >>> >>> On 2010-04-02, at 08:19, Gareth Nelson wrote: >>> >>>> If these people also work on the viewer, they're banned from >>>> contributing patches to opensim >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What is the reason that those fixes aren't incorporated in "pure" >>>>> opensim? >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for >> everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - >> Printcrime by Cory Doctrow >> >> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > "Welcome back, Anonymous, we're glad to see you again!" > > > -- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
