Re: Help for OSS Survey
* Amaya <amaya@debian.org>, [2006-12-23 8:33 +0100]:
> Why was there no such negative reaction back in the days where Ximian
> hired Gnome developers to do their Gnome work? Why is this so different
> in Debian, if Ximian's CEO was also the Gnome Project Leader? Why did
> the rest of the Gnome Developers accept this situation without the
> bitterness we've seen in Debian?
I don't know the Gnome community well enough to try to say why they
accepted the situation better than we did. What is interesting to me,
however, is that Ximian was a .com.
Try to think what would have happened if Dunc-Tank was a for-profit
company as well.
ciao,
ema
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