On 3/1/07, Alan Dechert <dechert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To be honest, I really don't want to see Sequoia's current code released
> > as
> > open source. Unlike the OVS codebase or other codebases, it was not
> > written
> > with public disclosure in mind, and has no shot of attracting a
> > development
> > community that would help fix bugs, a critical counterbalance to the claim
> > that
> > releasing code will just make it easier to hack.
> >
> There is something at work here very different from your experience with
> Apache. Importantly, it is the public's right-to-know factor. That,
> together with the regulatory barriers, makes Open Voting a lot different
> project than your average open source project. The techniques involved to
> get our points across are also necessarily different.
I must say I whole-heartedly agree with Brian on this one... you can't
just "turn on" source disclosure. It should be structured
differently. -Joe
-- Joseph Lorenzo Hall PhD Student, UC Berkeley, School of Information <http://josephhall.org/> _______________________________________________ OVC-discuss mailing list OVC-discuss@listman.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/ovc-discuss ================================================================== = The content of this message, with the exception of any external = quotations under fair use, are released to the Public Domain ==================================================================Received on Sat Mar 31 23:17:03 2007
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