Re: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit / education / world domination (long)

[Alexander M. <ms...@en...>]

>>Part of the joy of GPLed open source is that, if you find some change 
>>which would increase performance considerably which Slava for some reason 
>>refuses to implement, you're free to steal all the other code, make your 
>>change, and announce the new version on the mailing list. If it's that 
>>much better, the sheer weight of the community adopting it will either 
>>move the core that way, or cause users and other developers to migrate to 
>>your new version.
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>But, it is also a pity when it has to come to that...

Exactly, and I *don't* want it to come to that. Don't get me wrong, I agree 
that Slava has done *a lot* of *great* work with jEdit, and *of course* he 
has the right to tell us all to go to hell. The question is whether that's 
productive, whether it's good for the jEdit users community.


Alexander Maryanovsky.

At 07:19 7/4/2002 +0200, Richard S. Hall wrote:
>tod...@ma... wrote:
>
>>Part of the joy of GPLed open source is that, if you find some change 
>>which would increase performance considerably which Slava for some reason 
>>refuses to implement, you're free to steal all the other code, make your 
>>change, and announce the new version on the mailing list. If it's that 
>>much better, the sheer weight of the community adopting it will either 
>>move the core that way, or cause users and other developers to migrate to 
>>your new version.
>
>
>But, it is also a pity when it has to come to that...
>
>-> richard
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