TWiki - FOSS turned sour

KwangErn Liew ke.liew at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 14:22:17 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:40 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/29 KwangErn Liew <ke.liew at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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...
>
>
> Much worse than the XFree86->Xorg case (core disinterest and
> paralysis) or Compiere/Adempiere case (company ineptitude) - this is
> active hostility.
>
> Added to Slashdot firehose -
> http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1339655 - please click up.
>
>
Thanks! Those who are on the fork-camp picked it up earlier. :)

Two more others...

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1339353
http://digg.com/software/Hostile_takeover_of_Open_Source_Project_TWiki

We sincerely hope this project will gain the support it requires for the
benefit of such a beneficial project. Thanks!


KwangErn
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