2018-04-24
It's Not Rocket Science!
I have seen some complaints about various Open Source, GPL and BSD projects...
Most of these complaints tend to consist of something along the lines of: we made changes to
our install of (xyz project) an update came down the pipe, and it broke our install
and we had re-do all of our changes.
The answer to this is simple, but seems to make many folks choke: share your changes
with the folks writing whatever project you are using. Why share? Because your changes may
just make it into the project, especially if it is a "make sense" sort of change.
But herein lies the issue: "but it's MY code! I don't wanna share it! Intellectual property."
Come - on folks! This isn't rocket science! Someone created this project and shared it freely,
normally at no cost, time to give back to those who so freely shared with you! If you have
no intention of helping the project(s) you are using, maybe you should move on to
a commercial product, and all the inherent issues that come with it. Want changes to that
commercial product? Sure, they'll be happy to, once you fork out BIG BUCKS to get
it down. Want to see the source code? Forget it!
Good luck!
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Most of these complaints tend to consist of something along the lines of: we made changes to
our install of (xyz project) an update came down the pipe, and it broke our install
and we had re-do all of our changes.
The answer to this is simple, but seems to make many folks choke: share your changes
with the folks writing whatever project you are using. Why share? Because your changes may
just make it into the project, especially if it is a "make sense" sort of change.
But herein lies the issue: "but it's MY code! I don't wanna share it! Intellectual property."
Come - on folks! This isn't rocket science! Someone created this project and shared it freely,
normally at no cost, time to give back to those who so freely shared with you! If you have
no intention of helping the project(s) you are using, maybe you should move on to
a commercial product, and all the inherent issues that come with it. Want changes to that
commercial product? Sure, they'll be happy to, once you fork out BIG BUCKS to get
it down. Want to see the source code? Forget it!
Good luck!
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