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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:18:19PM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote:

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> Leonard Ritter wrote:

> >On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

> >>there isn't a single project that

> >>couldn't use a at least a few more developers. every single project:

> >>Rosegarden, MuSE, Lilypond, Aldrin,

> >

> >now hold it there! i don't want any of your dirty fingers on my precious

> >code.

> >

> >no, actually, i think we are doing fine. manpower doesn't necessarily

> >mean faster progress. if we just keep stealing from each others codebase

> >(that's what gpl is about, dammit), each one of our little projects will

> >turn out just fine.

> >

>

> In our attempt to help fulfilling 'the need for every single possible

> hardware interface to work', we could use some helping hands. I'm pretty

> confident that we're better off with a lot of (possibly dirty-handed)

> coders + some good maintainers than with the current situation where 3

> spare-time coders do it all. The current situation does help for

> satisfying my personal need for eternal glory and unlimited kudos...

>

> We should keep in mind that we're all doing it for fun (I hope) and that

> most of us don't make a living out of this. Concentration of these

> spare-time development efforts would be nice, but it doesn't seem to be

> working that way.

>

> My personal feeling is that the initial effort to learn somebody else's

> code is the main bottleneck towards entering a project. Sometimes people

> think they can do it better, or that it will be easier to do a complete

> rewrite. And sometimes they are right (e.g. ZynAddSubFX).

> 

Exactly. A good discussion, but this thread is ultimately as old as Free Software.
I think this sums it up pretty well:
http://goatchowder.wordpress.com/2006/04/09/in-praise-of-cadt/
Which is a response to the classic:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
- -ken

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