Comment Conflicting Open Source Developers (Score 1) 119
I'm appalled that the person who wanted to "take over" the development of "P" did what he did. Is there a way to protect ourselves from this sort of thing, perhaps by a copyright of the program name or even the contents, yet still allowing an individual to modify a program form the source code for his own use?
I think that the anonymous writer was doing the right thing by not mentioning names and such. It keeps him or her from being lowered to the same level of the other person.
If a person can't maintain the code for a program in a timely manner, wouldn't that mean that others who can['t wait for new versions would just have to either write their own or choose an alternative, if there were any available, to use.
It might have been a good idea to try to find another responsible person to take over the code development, but that is not a decision all of us can make for him or her.
I would not want the code to be maintaned by someone who likes to call others names, find fault, etc. This does not sound like a responsible, mentally sound individual. If this is the case, would it be safe to assume that the software would be free of code that might cause damage to the system or its files and programs? This is not to say that this _would_ happen, just something to think about.
Donald Hellen
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I think that the anonymous writer was doing the right thing by not mentioning names and such. It keeps him or her from being lowered to the same level of the other person.
If a person can't maintain the code for a program in a timely manner, wouldn't that mean that others who can['t wait for new versions would just have to either write their own or choose an alternative, if there were any available, to use.
It might have been a good idea to try to find another responsible person to take over the code development, but that is not a decision all of us can make for him or her.
I would not want the code to be maintaned by someone who likes to call others names, find fault, etc. This does not sound like a responsible, mentally sound individual. If this is the case, would it be safe to assume that the software would be free of code that might cause damage to the system or its files and programs? This is not to say that this _would_ happen, just something to think about.
Donald Hellen
>>>remove "dot spamproof" from each end of my address to reply"
