[PLUG] Finger Pointing

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 18:01:36 UTC 2008


# from Michael Rasmussen
# on Saturday 16 February 2008 07:49:

>Have any of you ever encountered a problem like this with Open Source
> groups? Where parties would find fault with the other and refuse to
> discuss it?

It does happen, but is usually more casual and short-lived.  When you 
have the source code, accusations are provable.

The more ongoing standoffs are typically about architectural 
disagreements or places where standards and protocols are in flux.  
These are usually accompanied by a code fork.

--Eric
-- 
"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."
--Groucho Marx
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