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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/05/2012 17:44, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>> 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
>
>

Typical shabby Nazi trick.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.