>Forcing someone to find a replacement is rude and it is not part of the >licensing > conditions. When you allow anyone to join the contribution party, you have > to allow anyone to walk away too. What you can do at most is to address the > concerns (if the concerns are fair enough) of the person who plans to go.
I still say that we can do this in better harmony. Provisions may be made considering the possible scenarios. License can have such clauses and its better that these issues are addressed there fairly early enough. Lets consider an example. Suppose I write a VideoConferencing software 'V' today but I am not sure of my future association with things. I may opt for Level 1 Association out of 1,2,3,4 and 5 as well as mention that in my disclaimer. There may be provisions to indicate how I see project life cycle - numeric ID can be used to indicate this too. Once I choose my Association ID and Project Management ID, I am freezing this within my disclaimer - that also shows that I cant opt for less now onwards. I have to behave as I have committed. This shows the responsibility and respect for the customer. If the customer can choose between ten products for video conferencing, the Association and Project Management IDs can help him decide his choice. IMHO, If FOSS or any philosophy cant empower the customer, it is meaningless. We have to take the responsibility of our customers and establish the fact that we do care for them. Mr. Khurana is pointing to the facts nicely and I want to add that we MUST also make provisions in our system for a better relationship with our customers. If they see FOSS as mere charity and not serious business, they can opt back for non-free systems they have been entrapped in. I also want to add that it is evident that all we want to do in FOSSCOMM and beyond is not mere charity but also serious business with FOSS ethics. MS <You may say, I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one> _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
