On 6 April 2015, Roy Tennant wrote:
I agree with Terry. His decisions on how to deal with his codebase has stood the test of time. Open source doesn't mean squat if no one steps up to maintain it (and I have some experience with that), so having someone dedicated to maintaining it is not a bad strategy. It may not beds the most politically correct solution, but so be it. Running (and maintained) code trumps everything.
It doesn't trump software freedom, in my opinion, and I don't understand the apparent feeling that free software can't have a dedicated long-term maintainer, but how other people handle their code is up to them, and I'm glad to now know the reasoning in this case.
Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/
