[mythtv-users] Mythtv torrent downloading

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Michael Segulja wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Michael Segulja wrote:
>>
>
> Hmmm... I was under the impression that open source software was the
> communitie's project?? Am I wrong?
>

Yes and no. The entire Linux community did not switch from Gnome to  
KDE simply because Linus stated his preference for the latter.

But, the Linux community does pay attention to what a "lead  
developer" thinks should be the direction of the project.

In spite of the wishes of some, the kernel PCI interface is *not*  
going to be "fixed" in a way that would break many drivers, mainly  
because Linus stated that he didn't think it was a good idea. There  
was no "kernel 2.7" tree, despite the fact that many people (myself  
included) thought that there should be, again mainly because Linus  
thought there didn't need to be one.

Every project needs leadership, and with open-source projects that is  
usually provided by one of the folks who provided the initial impetus  
to a given project. When real differences of opinion develop projects  
tend to "fork", and I am sure that Isaac would not mind if you wanted  
to fork the MythTV project and start one that included a torrent  
interface, that is your right because the project is "open source".

"Open source" gives you the right to take the source code and do what  
you want with it, that is what makes it "open", it does not mean that  
the developers have to act in a "democratic" manner, they own their  
own labor and may put it wherever they choose.

I don't know why I am bothering with all this, it should be obvious.  
Just common courtesy to developers who have put out tremendous  
efforts to your benefit should be enough to cause us all to acceed to  
their wishes.

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