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xara is a good cautionary tale along those lines - they open sourced what from all accounts was a very nice vector graphics editor, but it languished for want o
by zem 12y ago
xara is a good cautionary tale along those lines - they open sourced what from all accounts was a very nice vector graphics editor, but it languished for want of active community management from the company.
- teleclimber 12y agoOne huge problem with Xara's "open source" move was they kept a critical element closed source: "Xara and the volunteer developer community disagreed from almost the very beginning about a crucial issue: the company's decision to keep the application's core rendering library CDraw closed source. The developers said time and time again that a half-open, half-closed application was a dealbreaker."[1] [1] http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119790 http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119790 If you do any such thing you can't expect open source to work for you.
- zem 12y agoah, missed that! for some reason i thought they'd eventually given in and opened up the CDraw code.