-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:28:52AM -0600, Roberts, Jon wrote:
[...] > What happens when a person adds a feature or changes the architecture of the > database that is perceived by some as incorrect or going in the wrong > direction? (S)he gets to hold onto her/his own version. If there is enough power behind both variants, a fork might happen. Forks are not bad per se -- on the contrary, the variants can explore a wider area of design space. If they stay sufficiently open, they later steal ideas (and even code) from each other. Think genetic algorithms on a global scale ;-) But now it's definitely off-topic, so I'll shut up already. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHi20GBcgs9XrR2kYRAppzAJ0VSKzWb8jjEQfMCwW1ycpCAyEZUQCdFmtz tDpywf0ywvk+3j0qI1GUHkI= =3TME -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
