TWiki - FOSS turned sour

[KwangErn Liew]

Hi all,

Just to inform about the recent events on how dictatorship in a FOSS project
can lead to a complete fork by all developers.

The subject is TWiki and the articles covering this event are below...

http://wordpress.metro.cx/2008/10/28/twiki-is-dead-long-live-twiki/
http://blog.wikiring.com/Blog/BlogEntry28
http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/10/29/twiki-stops-being-open-source/
http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/TWiki_forks
http://blog.musmo.com/2008/10/29/the-end-of-twiki/

As a heavy user, it's quite disheartening that a FOSS project doesn't adhere
to democracy and transparency resulting into a fork.

I have yet to hear projects forking in such a tremendous way.


KwangErn
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