Matt Garman wrote:
Of course there will be a few gems that get lost, but overall, there's
more for everyone. And even if a good project does die, being open
source means that there's not all this political cruft attached to
it. Anyone can pick up a dead project and bring it back to life.
Yep.
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:20:03PM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote:
Either others will join and continue the work or it will die, it's the
same as with any other OSS project. Even in the commercial world there
is no guarantee that a product line will live forever (see Redhat).
But considering that
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On Friday 05 December 2003 20:15, Adrian Pirciu wrote:
Gentoo is a great system.. but what will happen when the people that
support it will get bored or leave or.. anything... who will continue
the work ? what will happen then ?
That's where users
do not panic...
keep breathing...
if someone leaves, someone else will take over...
it's always been like that in open source... if the project is
interesting that is.
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 19:15, Adrian Pirciu wrote:
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Gentoo is a great system..
On 12/05/03 Adrian Pirciu wrote:
Gentoo is a great system.. but what will happen when the people that
support it will get bored or leave or.. anything... who will continue
the work ? what will happen then ?
Either others will join and continue the work or it will die, it's the
same as with
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On Friday 05 December 2003 20:20, Marius Mauch wrote:
On 12/05/03 Adrian Pirciu wrote:
Gentoo is a great system.. but what will happen when the people
that support it will get bored or leave or.. anything... who will
continue the work ? what
Adrian Pirciu said:
This is a very realistic answer. Thank you. I've seen many good
projects dying.. it would be quite painful to see gentoo die.. i'm
quite attached to it now :)
But it's just an operating system, after all. I'm sure most of us
have changed our OS several times over the
