Thread: Open source vs confidential products
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BoxOfSnoo is offline BoxOfSnoo
2009-04-19 , 16:18
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#11
Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
Who said that open source has to be openly developed?

You might say it goes against openness and the community to do that and for certain projects I agree.

we both know from experience now what open community development does for a large project and its not pretty.

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Being secretive and developing behind closed doors allows a group to focus on the vision and spec without ending up with a stinking pile of committee driven code.
There once was this project, you may have heard of it, called Linux. They somehow figured out how to do this.

We have some massively successful OSS projects out there, with a process that is amazingly effective. It's like Nokia looked at all of them and said, "Not Invented Here" and completely avoided learning anything from them.

Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
as for the dead hardware, I certainly don't think its dead and as community council member for maemo.org general thats a pretty harsh thing to say.
He's right though. Neither as a whole nor any remaining component bugs will be fixed. MicroB, for example, has had some annoying input bugs since the release of Diablo. And how do you enjoy Modest's rapid pace of development (HTML messages anyone)? For a NIT these are significant portions of the whole devices purpose of existence.
 

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