[OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

[Peter Childs]

2009/12/11 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>:
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> 2009/12/11 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>
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>> Hmm Maybe these have not all died but the split did cause serious damage.
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>> X (You now have a choice of X.org and XFree86), The split caused a
>> long halt in development and the original is hardly used now, only the
>> branch....
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>> Joomla/Mambo
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>> I'm sure there are others
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> Hum, the examples you are choosing are interesting but not for the reason
> you think. Please note that I am not advocating a fork far from it.
> In the two cases you cited, the fork is actually very strong, and there was
> very little damage.

Hmm the Fork is strong? in the case of X XFree86 (ie the original) is
almost unknown now. and the Fork meant many years of little or no
development on what is the main graphics sub-system used across
multiple operating systems.

Project split for many reasons but I will never think that a split is
or was a good thing. I would prefer in almost all cases one good tool
for the job, instead of 3 tools that all do the same job badly.

Lets work together rather than apart, our strength is in the Union.

Peter

Peter.