Re: Please assume good faith
Nikolaus Rath dixit:
>To cut a long story short, I am not convinced that by open sourcing my
>code I am acquiring a moral obligation to take into account the
>preferences of potential users in future versions - no matter how large
But that’s just the thing! You are!
Of course, only in a way, and only morally, but if you want to
ever have people building systems with blocks of yours again,
you better do, or you lose credibility.
Open Source is *not* about the code, or the licence. It’s about
Free Users, and it’s a way of life, and this includes the way
things are developed. (For example, many projects from larger
companies aren’t; pcc doesn’t feel like it either, and, naming
it explicitly because it’s different in a different way than
what I mean with “projects from companies” above, MySQL sure
as hell isn’t, either.)
bye,
//mirabilos
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