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Re: Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project

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Post by wlll » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 2:52 PM UTC

…you used HAML

Re: Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project

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Post by jasonlotito » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC

juddlyon wrote: post #29

adamstac wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Wynn and his sense of humor, and I can see how easy it might be to totally miss his comedic tone with the loaded title and seemingly "preechy" top 10 list. When/if you meet him, you will know what I mean after a few minutes into a good chat with him. I will say though, that Wynn does contribute to Open Source - we all do at The Changelog. He also did apologize in the opening sentence of the first paragraph for…

Wynn is one of the nicest guys around and is very passionate about OSS. He's the polar opposite of entitled or preachy - he writes, codes, interviews, and speaks regularly. Perhaps his linkbait parody missed....

Yeah, it did miss. He might have good points when you understand he's just using that style as a gag, but after a few points, I just gave up.

Re: Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project

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Post by alanfranz » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 10:24 PM UTC

I have been elucubrating on the topic for a while; I think some of your points are not so important (a pretty homepage will be needed once the community is quite large, not for a just-started project).

By the way, my thoughts on community projects are here:

http://ollivander.franzoni.eu/2010/12/building-successful-co...

it's a multipart post, not yet finished.

Re: Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project

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Post by sfermigier » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 10:58 AM UTC

leon_ wrote: post #21

Wow, that post is just wrong. Open source is not a product. Open source is a community effort. If you don't want to use it - well, it's your problem. No one will shed a tear about it. If you actually would care about open source you wouldn't be making shitty top10 lists. You would get your ass up and contribute to the project of your choice. If you think twitter is important ... fine! Start a twitter account for that…

"Open source is not a product. Open source is a community effort. If you don't want to use it - well, it's your problem. No one will shed a tear about it."

Bullshit. Open source or not, a product is a product. If nobody uses it, you've waisted your time (and the time of the other contributors) building it.