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9 May 2024 01:28:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to attract developers ?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 16 Nov 2007 15:34:15
Message: <473dfec7@news.povray.org>

> "Tom York" <alp### [at] zubenelgenubi34spcom> wrote:
>> Fa3ien <fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> wrote:
>>> Will the new Open Source status automagically attract people ?
>> Maybe. You can't work on what you can't see :)
>>
>> Tom
> 
> Well, the source code is already available, so there's nothing stopping them
> from seeing it except for snobbishness on their part (for refusing to touch
> free software that isn't GPL).

Actually, there is a reason that's stopping them. 3.6.1 source code is 
available. 3.7 changed lots of structure. It may be a waste of time to 
edit 3.6.1 code if you'll have to re-adapt to 3.7, which may not be easy.


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