RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Melchior FRANZ writes:
> 
> * Jim Wilson -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:01:
> > The second most neglected item (after documentation) in the OSS world is
> > backwards compatibility.
> 
> The first item is true,  ...
> 
> And the second item is also one of the strengths of OSS. It doesn't
> have to carry old code forever. 

< this is not aimed at anyone > Something I have noticed with
OSS is that folks sometimes have a difficult time realizing that their
vision is not the 'one true vision' for how a project should be.

This is esp. true with code that one doesn't use,  one shouldn't forget 
that someone else wrote that code most likely for the same reason one 
wants to change it. i.e it fit their 'vision'   :-)

Cheers

Norman