[wplug] Anyone else read the NetBSD article?

Poyner, Brandon bpoyner at ccac.edu
Fri Sep 1 14:00:54 EDT 2006


Greg Simkins wrote:

> Without ownership, who will champion the product?  

The community will, or so the theory goes.  The community decides what
products matter.  If people like the project but don't like the
leadership or direction they can feel free to fork off their own
version.  That's exactly how OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD came into being.
Projects have to stand on their own or they quickly become irrelevant.
There are hundreds of Linux distributions, but only a few dozen at best
actually have the leadership, community and user base to matter.  I
could start a fork of any package, but without any users it would be
pointless.  Most of the time it's much easier to work within the
existing project than to fork.

In the Microsoft world the community still matters, but their best
recourse is to not buy the product if they don't like it.  

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086



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