At 5:30 PM +0200 3/29/06, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
It has some clear implications too. No matter how you shake it, the
two things were technical *competitors*. Normally, the Struts people
should be about as happy to say that Webwork is better as to have a
tooth pulled. So if they say it...
Here you ascribe an outlook on things to "the Struts people" which
assumes that your motivations are theirs.
Frankly, this is inaccurate for me. I see open source software as
cooperative, not competitive, even between projects.
I think Niall's answer to the question "why did Struts development
stagnate" is pretty much what I would say. I'm not doing this for
bragging rights, and it's not the only thing I like to do in my spare
time. I contribute when I can. If it helps anyone, that's great.
As far as I can tell it hasn't hurt anyone.
Also note that the WebWork team is supporting this merger process.
As far as I know, none of them have vigorously objected, nor sworn to
carry on WebWork under its own name, etc. So perhaps there is
another group of developers whose motivations are not what you
personally might guess they are.
Joe
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