On Friday 07 January 2011 15:23:25 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 14:24 +0530, jtd wrote:
Non contributions may or may not be large or damaging, but we are not going to convince each other without hard data. As it stands I think everbody has plenty of other stuff to do, but it would be good exercise.
actually from my experience - and from discussions with others who are developing projects, the 'improvements' made by people who take the code and close the source and distribute without contributing back are usually worthless,
I agree. The example of pptp.
so no great loss.
But crappy code did cause a pita. So non contribituions not only resulted in no gain, but actually a loss to everybody.
For the record i had a taste of M$ pptp while trying to get a pilot of major project off the ground. Needless to say the isp lost big time - 10000 connections - and the bank money and time. I was ofcourse paid, but getting things done and working is what interests me rather than just money. Circa 2003-4.