On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 06:57:05PM EST, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Chris Jones wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:30:56PM EST, Dag Wieers wrote:
>>> Open Source is basically scratching your own itches, I don't think >>> nobody expects more than that. >> [..] >> You do realize that if with help from some magic wand someone removed >> OSS from the face of the earth, the internet among other things would >> immediately grind to a halt..? > > You are reading more into it. You cannot expect from anyone > contributing its free time, to do more than he is interested in. > > If you compare me contributing to Open Source with a giant company as > Oracle, the metaphore lost all its relevance in this discussion ;-) Fair enough.. just thought I'd point out that even though our legendary OSS mavericks may initially have started off scratching some personal itch, once it turned out the same itch was shared by countless others, they ended up being a much larger force than anything the HR department of such "giant companies" as Oracle could ever dream of. And AFAIK asciidocš is part of it... so maybe my remark was not entirely OT after all. Best, CJ š the good thing being that like a growing number of very satisfied users, I have pretty much become dependent upon asciidoc. As a result I feel a lot more comfortable using asciidoc rather than some equivalent piece of proprietary software that someone in a high place might decide to stop developing/supporting only because dollar-wise, it no longer makes sense for them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
