On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:34, Colin Michael Yates wrote:
Given that Linux is about choice...
Yes, Linux and open source development is very much about choice... and one them is how a developer chooses to spend his or her time. It's hard work to build a project like this, but the reward is doing something that the creator believes is worthwhile. Nobody is being paid... so this doesn't need to conform to anyone else's idea of what "worthwhile" is. The GPL allows the code to be modified by anyone who chooses to... but it doesn't require the author to do work that he doesn't enjoy doing.
Fair enough having a personal agenda, but enforcing it on others (i.e. being hostile) isn't really on.
Hostility and indifference are two very different things. I haven't seen any hostility on this list... yet. Best regards, -Tom