On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:59 -0800, Troy Engel wrote:
Craig White wrote:
you have to keep in mind that forking is one of the great strengths of open source. That is the spirit of open source.
Oh completely agreed - but how often do you see a fork before any code/developement is actually contributed (or, an earnest attempt to contribute)? While forking is in the spirit, forking outright "just because" doesn't seem like it's truly in the spirit. (*)
I'm comparing this to more well known forks, like X.org or the more recent Mambo/Joomla. Political issues aside, the forks followed a more traditional path of people at least trying first to make it work. The vTiger fork strikes more more as a hit-and-run on someone else's codebase.
My $0.02 US. :) -te
(*) again I'm not a proponent of either side, but from a long time open source contributor and advocate point of view the vTiger moves feels sketchy
---- I think it would be reasonable to conclude that their motivations are entirely commercial if that is what you are driving at.
Craig