On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:02:05 -0400 Stephen Pape <srp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Aces" in your sleeve? You mean you're keeping the development process > intentionally closed to discourage forkers? What? I happily explain it again to you: forks are potentially damaging to any project. Here and actually only here on openmoko there have been some people actually massively aggressing me and threatening me on any occasion with a fork. So yes, you got that right :) I do not always have time to work on tangoGPS and still can do a constant flow of new features. You are a funny man - big scandale that not all my brain activity is monitorable :) I know that RMS would like to enclose all software developers in a gulag with constant thought monitoring - yeah! Any software thought must be freed at once :) Just to mention it: the linux kernel had been developed for the first years purely based on tarballs and patches without any public distributed VCS and collaboration has worked without problems. Simply because in 1992 pretty much nobody had a 24/7 permanent online internet access. It is not as if 80% of the code changes in a week. And it is not as if there would be legions of willing developers. Actually any open source project that I know is short of good developers and much more software doesn't even get developed because people lack skill, focus, energy and long term commitment. Last not least I am replying here because the thread was opened here and because many people have bought Freerunners to run tangoGPS on them. A last word: the vast majority of the members of the Openmoko community are here for the opportunities that open hardware and open software offer. Hwoever a small fraction has a misunderstanding about free software. I have seriously received bizarre emails of people telling me what I have to do because I am a free software developer and as they don't know how to write software I have to do it for them. Best regards, Marcus - creator of successful free software :-) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community