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Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki
- mtw 18y agothe blog post doesn't make it clear that Peter Thoeny started the open source project. however, I also know well how the TWiki community works and wouldn't have expected that the original founder would act like this. TWiki in practice was owned by the community (much alike Debian)
- bayareaguy 18y agoWhere's the benefit in this? I could understand it more if TWiki were a consumer-facing thing like Firefox with a huge codebase and a large developer community. Or did TWiki get big recently?
- DarkShikari 18y agoWhat a stupid idea. The value of open source projects isn't in their code, but in their developers. The code, being GPL, can be picked up by anyone with few restrictions; on the other hand, the developers cannot be copied. Its not even as if he could make a proprietary fork of the project; being GPL, such a thing is impossible unless you purge all code contributed by all other developers who refuse to go along with such a license.
- jacobscott 18y agoAlso given that there are competing, comparable, open source/commercial wiki projects (a mindtouch cofounder commented on the article), the developers do have other places to go...
- jacobscott 18y agoThe article sites Wilson Sonsini as an investor in Twiki.net, but they're actually a law firm. I'm confused.
- antirez 18y agoif you release open source you should never complain if somebody users your code, as long as the use is legally compatible with the license.