hi,

Thorsten <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> ...
> No, I did listen. And he is completely right about the license. I know,
> because it cost Chris and me an extreme amount of non-quality time and a
> lot of money to get all the contributor agreements to relicense under
> AGPL3.
>
> It is just his approach that one should give and expect an instant award
> for contributing that I absolutely do not share. And as I said, also do
> know that the second generation of WWW users developed his expectation.
> But I do not have to agree, and I just don't.

happy to agree that the immediate reward and the everyone-can-merge wouldn't be
my choice, either.

but, "the message" I took from his talk was that an successful open source
project tends to be one where the maintainers create, and then foster, an
"atmosphere" that allows the users/"community" to .. coalesce around shared
goal(s), and play an active part of that pursuit.  and perhaps the fact that "it
cost Chris and me an extreme amount of non-quality time and a lot of money" is
simply an indication that the (potential) "support base" ought to have been
asked to become involved; anyway, by the by.

(I find it very interesting that you have not touched on this point, at all,
even though it would seem pertinent wrt this debate)


regards, jr.

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