-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>>>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project >>>>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your >>>>> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own. >>>> Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples. >>> And? Seen either of them around lately? > >> I deny the assertion that "not sharing code" is the reason they >> aren't in the market anymore. > > You have as much proof of that as I have of the opposite, namely none > whatsoever. But certainly you can't put them forward today as examples > of long-term success of a private fork. That's the question: did they fail because they were private forks, or did the *companies* fail because of bad management, bad marketing, etc? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE+fgAS9HxQb37XmcRArz4AKCGrtyT9v9TsZY+MMNgIDTlO9TJfQCgl0Cr FXyY2ZMua9YR6ni9CulPgKY= =opkW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
