OliverKrueger - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Welcome to the new economy (Score 1) 194

by OliverKrueger on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @01:16PM (#25557687) Attached to: TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors

As far as I understand Peter Thoenys comments on Debian, this was related to the governance model of the Debian project. To cite Tom Barton (ceo of twiki.net): "TWiki is not ready for a democratic approach."

Technically the software formerly known as TWiki is very well compatible with Debian. Sven Dowideit for example puts alot of effort into the maintance of deb packages.

TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors 194

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @11:14AM from the what-does-that-mean dept.

David Gerard noted an interesting story going down with a relatively minor project that has interesting implications for any Open Source project. He writes "Ten years ago, Peter Thoeny started the TWiki wiki engine. It attracted many contributors at twiki.org. About a year ago, Thoeny founded the startup twiki.net. On 27th October, twiki.net locked all the other contributors out of twiki.org in an event Thoeny called 'the twiki.org relaunch.' Here's the IRC meeting log. All the other core developers have now moved to a new project, NextWiki. Is it a sensible move for a venture capital firm that depends on a healthy Open Source community to lock it out?"

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