Re: Fwd: Wall Street article on a new Cooperative
Taran Rampersad <[email protected]>
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Brian Behlendorf wrote: >On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Matt Asay wrote: > > >>As for the critique (made by others) that Avalanche does nothing for >>open source, how so? Why is it any less open source because it is >>restricted to a smaller group of participants than most open source >>projects, a restriction largely dictated by our voraciously hungry legal >>system? >> >> > >Because there is no right to fork. > > Brian > > Right, they're behind. But they are embracing one part of FLOS. In time, they may embrace others. What they are celebrating as innovation is a poor mimicry of what already exists. And if companies *buy* into that, maybe businesses will be more eager to *buy* into other approaches along the same guidelines - which would probably allow forking. And if they don't, they lose - right? Endgame. If they do, they move closer to FLOS, and eventually become FLOS. Endgame. I really don't see any losses, aside from the non-forking (self-flagellating) folk. And whether that's a loss instead of a draw is questionable. -- Taran Rampersad [email protected] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.fsc.cc http://www.a42.com