Thread: The cohesive community: from talking to doing
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Matan is offline Matan
2009-01-11 , 16:21
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#17
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Even in small and pure community free software projects you are encouraged to contact the developers before going ahead with a significant patch adding a completely new feature to the project.

If you dislike the criteria of the maintainers you can always go ahead with your own fork.

All this existed years before Maemo started.
This is exactly the point - I can fork FBReader, I can fork debian (another analogy that came up in this thread), but I can't fork OS2008.

The problem I discuss here is not that the system is closed (that's for another discussion) - but that some people claim it is more open than it actually is.
 

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