On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:40 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/29 KwangErn Liew ke.liew@gmail.com:
Just to inform about the recent events on how dictatorship in a FOSS
project
can lead to a complete fork by all developers. The subject is TWiki and the articles covering this event are below...
Much worse than the XFree86->Xorg case (core disinterest and paralysis) or Compiere/Adempiere case (company ineptitude) - this is active hostility.
Added to Slashdot firehose - http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1339655 - please click up.
Thanks! Those who are on the fork-camp picked it up earlier. :)
Two more others...
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1339353 http://digg.com/software/Hostile_takeover_of_Open_Source_Project_TWiki
We sincerely hope this project will gain the support it requires for the benefit of such a beneficial project. Thanks!
KwangErn