on 1/15/01 4:59 PM, "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So, Apache is the boss of Costin and pays him to do work on Tomcat 4 but
> he
>> works on 3.3 instead?
>
> Nearly all the open-source projects out there have a "boss" who gets to
> decide whether or not they like your stuff. If you fail to convince them
> that your stuff is the One and Only Good Way to do things (although, unlike
> Costin, I don't think there's such a thing), then your stuff is not going to
> get in, and you'll have to choose whether or not you accept their decision.
> If you don't, you'll have to fork the project. I think that's fine, and it
> has happened quite frequently in oss in the past.
> But the main point is at at some point there has to be some kind of final
> decision taken by some authority. Otherwise it's chaos, and nothing
> productive gets done.
>
> Frankly, if I was Costin, and I disagreed on everything as much as he does,
> I would have forked the project long ago (instead of regularly posting rants
> and FUD about how much the competing project sucks, which doesn't help
> anyone).
>
>> How voluntary is voluntary work here?
>
> Nobody's forcing anyone to do anything, but they have to follow rules and
> accept decisions (after contributing to the making of those decisions). If
> they don't, they're allowed to fork the project and keep the code. Where
> else do you expect to find more freedom ?
>
> Remy
+1 !!!!!!!!!!!
-jon
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