[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Tue Jun 26 17:28:03 UTC 2007
On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:09:32AM -0500, Andrew Close wrote:
>> the Myth community, but anyone interested in program data. we're
>> possibly witnessing the birth of a completely new OSS product!
>> exciting stuff :)
>
> And, to quote Heinlein, no birth happens without a little blood and
> pain.
I also can't think of any project that has been destroyed by a code
fork, even though forks are always accompanied by Warnings Of
Impending Doom from the cheap seats. Forks sometimes create bad
feelings, but rarely bad code; often one development path becomes
decidedly better than the software was at the fork point, and the
other withers on the vine. Sometimes they *both* become superior,
but in different ways. And more often than not they eventually merge
together again.
I'm not saying a code fork is likely in MythTV, I'm just saying that
forks are a way of life for OSS, and they're nothing to be afraid of.
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