Viimeaikojen uutiset joissa höpötetään milloin Mandrivan, milloin Solariksen, milloin taas Open Officen kuolemasta ovat pelkkää kärpästen surinaa korvissa. Asia on nimittäin niin, ettei näitä ja vastaavia projekteja millään firman pääjohtajan päätöksillä lopeteta.
Mainitut kolme projektia ovat aivan liian motivoituneiden ja osaavien ihmisten hallussa jotta ne kuolisivat. Esim Open Office-projekteissä on 450 000 ihmistä mukana. Päinvastoin - näyttää siltä että avoimien standardien projektit vain lisääntyvät ja laajentuvat. Jäykät firmat putoavat leikistä pois, parhaimmat (kuten Red Hat ym) vain vahvistuvat. Nämä firmat luulivat vain lyhytnäköisesti hyötyvänsä tekemättä itse mitään. YHTEISÖISSÄ ON VOIMAA.
" There are two reasons why this is a wise course of action. First, it sends the right signal to the open source community - including those who might be engaged on other projects that are currently supported by the company in question. Oracle's high-handed approach to open source is fast making it Public Enemy Number 1 as far as free software is concerned (yes, even relegating Microsoft to second place). This means that people working on the MySQL or OpenOffice.org projects are going to be far warier, and more distrustful of the company's moves in future.
The second reason why those who seek to make money from free software would do well to treat their projects and their supporters with more respect is this latest wave of forks: people are beginning to realise that they don't have to put up with this stuff. Forking is certainly a big step to take, but the more people that decide to do it, the more acceptable it will become, despite its well-known risks."
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/09/are-we-entering-the-golden-age-of-forks/index.htm
Mainitut kolme projektia ovat aivan liian motivoituneiden ja osaavien ihmisten hallussa jotta ne kuolisivat. Esim Open Office-projekteissä on 450 000 ihmistä mukana. Päinvastoin - näyttää siltä että avoimien standardien projektit vain lisääntyvät ja laajentuvat. Jäykät firmat putoavat leikistä pois, parhaimmat (kuten Red Hat ym) vain vahvistuvat. Nämä firmat luulivat vain lyhytnäköisesti hyötyvänsä tekemättä itse mitään. YHTEISÖISSÄ ON VOIMAA.
" There are two reasons why this is a wise course of action. First, it sends the right signal to the open source community - including those who might be engaged on other projects that are currently supported by the company in question. Oracle's high-handed approach to open source is fast making it Public Enemy Number 1 as far as free software is concerned (yes, even relegating Microsoft to second place). This means that people working on the MySQL or OpenOffice.org projects are going to be far warier, and more distrustful of the company's moves in future.
The second reason why those who seek to make money from free software would do well to treat their projects and their supporters with more respect is this latest wave of forks: people are beginning to realise that they don't have to put up with this stuff. Forking is certainly a big step to take, but the more people that decide to do it, the more acceptable it will become, despite its well-known risks."
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/09/are-we-entering-the-golden-age-of-forks/index.htm
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Vanhimmat
"Unfortunately, I think it is going to take a while for this message to sink in, and so I predict we are going to see plenty more forks in the near future as the community starts to re-assert itself. I also think that this tendency will lead to more independent foundations being set up to oversee the development of free software, since these provide a fairer and more balanced way for companies and coders to work together for mutual benefit. Interesting times..."
sillä vannoin kerran vielä kokeilevani Solarista.