Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

[Daniel Fetchinson]

> Blatantly the pyjs ownership  change turned out to be an awkward
> operation (as reactions on that ML show it), but a fork could also have
> very harmfully "split" pyjs-interested people, so all in all I don't
> think there was a perfect solution - dictatorships never fall harmlessly.

You say "fork could also have very harmfully split", what harms are
you referring to?
In the open source world there were tons of forks of projects and it
proved to be a useful mechanism for resolving serious management
issues.  On the other hand the kind of hostile takeover that happened
with pyjs is virtually unparalleled in the open source world. What
made you think such a unique operation will be less harmful than the
other which has already been tried many times?

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> | Please get this absolutely clear in your head: that                  |
> | you do not "understand" my reasoning is completely and utterly       |
> | irrelevant.  i understand *your* reasoning; i'm the one making the   |
> | decisions, that's my role to understand the pros and cons.  i make a |
> | decision: that's the end of it.                                      |
> | You present reasoning to me: i weight it up, against the other       |
> | reasoning, and i make a decision.  you don't have to understand that |
> | decision, you do not have to like that decision, you do not have to  |
> | accept that decision.                                                |
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Again, if you don't like the lead developer just fork the project,
come up with a new name, new website and new infrastructure and start
building a new community. Why didn't the rebels do that?

Cheers,
Daniel


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